The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
BERNARD CRICKThe politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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