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

Bernard Crick

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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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 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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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 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
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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

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

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