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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Bernard Crick

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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
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
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
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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

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