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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Bernard Crick

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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the ‘inner contradictions’ of such a system.
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Giving Order Real
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 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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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