Quotes by Bernard Crick - Page 1

Free men stick their necks out.
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Men
Necks
Sticks
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy
Totalitarianism
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government
Impossible
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners
Rough
Useful Things
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Men
Boredom
Enemy
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Politician
Pride
Use
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair
Democracy
World
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty
Danger
Desire
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character
Lying
Unique
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factories
Factory Workers
Working For A Living
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Men
Chaos
Order
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency
Ideas
Skills
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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
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Technology
Ideas
Simple
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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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Men
Condescension And
Praise
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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
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Politics
Political
Together
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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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Done
Interest
Justice
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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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Politics
Evil
Political
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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
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The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups
Method
Tyrants
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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
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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
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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
Political
Thinking
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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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Men
Acting
What Matters
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
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Destruction
Facts
Relevant
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
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Past
Revenge
Suffering
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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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Government
Discovery
Support
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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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Politics
Doctrine
Political
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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
Politics
Political
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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 That
Political
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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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Giving
Order
Real
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, 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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Men
Doe
Order
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