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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

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
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 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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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

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

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