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Politics Quotes by Bernard Crick
- 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.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle