36 Quotes by Bernard Crick

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.

Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given out by their successors taking too much credit, however heroic their actions at the time of crisis (but so often in the past hopeless).

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.