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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Bernard Crick

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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Firsts Real Reason
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use

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