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

Bernard Crick

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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 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 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
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
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
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
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

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