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

Bernard Crick

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
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 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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful

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