Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
-
-
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
BERNARD CRICK -
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.
BERNARD CRICK -
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
BERNARD CRICK -
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
BERNARD CRICK -
Free men stick their necks out.
BERNARD CRICK -
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
BERNARD CRICK -
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
BERNARD CRICK -
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
BERNARD CRICK -
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
BERNARD CRICK -
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
BERNARD CRICK -
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.
BERNARD CRICK -
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.
BERNARD CRICK -
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
BERNARD CRICK -
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
BERNARD CRICK -
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
BERNARD CRICK






