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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Bernard Crick

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. 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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Men Political Politics
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
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
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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 idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

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