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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's Popular Quotes

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 …

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

- 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

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

- Bernard Crick