Alan Bullock Quotes

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.
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Background Become Confront Historical Impossible Seriously State Understand Welfare
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
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Committee Democracy Make Speech Work
Evil is a form of incompetence.
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Evi Form Incomplete
Take any important issue of our time – Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,
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Disarmament Important Issue Northern Nuclear Our Race Take Time
A nation’s sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.
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Cohesion History Nation Sense Social
Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
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Constitutional Dictatorship Enable Foundation Law People Rate Single
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
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Behavior Corruption Inhuman People Way
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
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Alive Back Become Bore Certainty Coming Extreme Impossible Seriously Spend Weekend
But to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
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Immediate Produce Public Reveal Trace Uniform Unorthodox Utterance
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade.
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Better Convenience No Object One People Persuade Propaganda Than True Understand
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past.
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History Past Taught
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
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Name Nature
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
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Application Argue Case Claim Discipline Plausible Principle Self
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation.
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Country Creation Democracy Depend Event Evolve Institution Political Survive Understand Voter

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