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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
Bernard Crick -
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
Bernard Crick
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
Bernard Crick -
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
Bernard Crick -
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick -
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
Bernard Crick -
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
Bernard Crick -
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.
Bernard Crick