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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Bernard Crick

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

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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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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