The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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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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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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 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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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