36 Quotes by Bernard Crick

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

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

We each have to choose something but it is another question how and why we presume to choose for others.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.

The populist mode of democracy is a politics of arousal more than of reason, but also a politics of diversion from serious concerns that need settling in either a liberal democratic or a civic republican manner.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.