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.
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
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
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable so…
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. - Bernard Crick
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order. - Bernard Crick
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states. - Bernard Crick
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order …
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives. - Bernard Crick
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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
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 …
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. - Bernard Crick
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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