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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Bernard Crick

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
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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

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