Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
