Activity Quote by Bernard Crick Download Open image “The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.” — Bernard Crick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Character Lying Political Politics Publicity Unique
It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special… — Peter Schuyler Copy Share Image
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling. — David Geffen Copy Share Image
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless… — Tony Blair 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
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
