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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

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
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
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
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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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 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

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