Affair Quote by Bernard Crick Download Open image “Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.” — Bernard Crick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Democracy Democracy Promiscuous Promiscuous Promiscuous Word Public affairs World World Public
There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,… — Fran Lebowitz 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
