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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Bernard Crick

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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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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Done Interest Justice
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
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
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
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
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
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

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