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

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable so…

- Bernard Crick

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

- Bernard Crick

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

- Bernard Crick

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

- Bernard Crick

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 …

- Bernard Crick

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 …

- Bernard Crick

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

- Bernard Crick

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

- Bernard Crick