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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.

Bernard Crick

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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

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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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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