The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
BERNARD CRICKIndividualism 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.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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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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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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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