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.
BERNARD CRICKBOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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 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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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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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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.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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