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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

Bernard Crick

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
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 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
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Evil Political Politics
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. 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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Men Political Politics
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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 Theory

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