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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Bernard Crick

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
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
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

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