Bernard Crick

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance."

"Free men stick their necks out."

"Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy."

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

"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."