Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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…
- 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
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
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.
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 …
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 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 …
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.
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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