Bernard Crick - Politics Quotes

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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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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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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

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

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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

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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.

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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

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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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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.

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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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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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