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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Bernard Crick

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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 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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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 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

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