36 Quotes by Bernard Crick

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.

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.

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

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

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.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

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

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.