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 CRICKThe unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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The 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.
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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