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Bernard Crick
25 quotes
“BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free men stick their necks out.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, 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.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.”
Bernard Crick (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source