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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Bernard Crick

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
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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 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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. 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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Men Political Politics
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

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