Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
BERNARD CRICKThere is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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.
BERNARD CRICKBOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
BERNARD CRICKThe praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
BERNARD CRICKIf 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 CRICKQuite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
BERNARD CRICKThe agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
BERNARD CRICKToo often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
BERNARD CRICKWhere government is impossible, politics is impossible.
BERNARD CRICKFree men stick their necks out.
BERNARD CRICKCertainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
BERNARD CRICKWhat 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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