The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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.
More Bernard Crick Quotes
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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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 has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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What 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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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