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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

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
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 method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

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