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Bernard Crick was British political theorist and democratic socialist. Explore interesting quotes on interest.

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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.”

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 148.

“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, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.”

A Footnote To Rally Fellow Socialists, p. 234.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981

“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 18.