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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Bernard Crick

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Bernard Crick
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: December 19
Critic
Political Scientist
Politician
Writer
London
England
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
Bernard Rowland Crick
Bernard R. Crick
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Politics

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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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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 perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil it is a realistic good.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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