Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
ALAN BULLOCKHitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
ALAN BULLOCKBut to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
ALAN BULLOCKEvil is a form of incompetence.
ALAN BULLOCKIf the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation.
ALAN BULLOCKDemocracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
ALAN BULLOCKHistory, well taught, is the demythologising of the past.
ALAN BULLOCKBullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
ALAN BULLOCKHitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCKTake any important issue of our time – Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,
ALAN BULLOCKThe corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
ALAN BULLOCKSpending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
ALAN BULLOCKA nation’s sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.
ALAN BULLOCKThe Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.
ALAN BULLOCKNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade.
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