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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

Bernard Crick

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 plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Political Politics Together
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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
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
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism

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