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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Bernard Crick

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Political Politics Together
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the ‘inner contradictions’ of such a system.
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Giving Order Real
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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Demand Guarantees Political
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine Social

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