A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a reckl… - Bernard Crick

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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.

Bernard Crick

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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology.

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Alternative Names: Sir Bernard Rowland Crick • Bernard Rowland Crick • Bernard R. Crick

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