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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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Bernard CrickToo often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the ch — Bernard Crick
"Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives."
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology, and he held that "political power is power in the subjunctive mood." He was a leading critic of behaviouralism.
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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology, and he held that "political power is power in the subjunctive mood." He was a leading critic of behaviouralism.
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"To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance."
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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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"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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"There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price."
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"BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men."
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