Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. BERNARD CRICK ChallengesIdeologicalPoliticalRuleThinking
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. BERNARD CRICK PoliticalPoliticsTogether
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. BERNARD CRICK AffairDemocracyWorld
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order. BERNARD CRICK AgonyOrderPractice
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension. BERNARD CRICK CondescensionMenPraise
