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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Bernard Crick

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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 Social
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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

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