Condescension Quote by Bernard Crick

“The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.”

Bernard Crick

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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

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Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

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