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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Bernard Crick

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Condescension

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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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
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty
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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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 What
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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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 Together
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Order
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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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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Order Real
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Use
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

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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
Free men stick their necks out.

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Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Neck Sticks
Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Economic Individualism Programmed Such
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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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

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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