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

Bernard Crick

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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Firsts Real Reason
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Condescension Men Praise
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
What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Acting Matter Men What
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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Doctrine Political Politics Problem
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
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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Demand Fundamentals Problem
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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Discovery Government Need Support

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