Bernard Crick Quotes

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

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

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Free men stick their necks out.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.