Bernard Crick

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

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

"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."

"Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one."

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

"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."

"If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, …"

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