Bernard Crick Quotes
- BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
- 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…
- What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into…
- The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
- Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just…
- The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this…
- Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.
- Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
- The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.