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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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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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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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Bernard Crick
Born:
December 16, 1929
Died:
December 19, 2008
(aged 79)
Bio:
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as 'politics is ethics done in public'.
Known for:
In Defence of Politics (1962)
George Orwell: A Life (1980)
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (2002)
Essays on Citizenship (2000)
The American Science of Politics (1959)
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