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Richard Crossman est un écrivain et homme politique britannique travailliste, né le 15 décembre 1907 et mort le 5 avril 1974. Il exerce des fonctions ministérielles au sein du gouvernement Wilson entre 1964 et 1970. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. décembre 1907 – 5. avril 1974
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Richard Crossman: Citations en anglais

“I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone... Whitehall envelops me.”

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Richard Crossman

Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume 1

“The last ten years have proved that the most backward totalitarian form of Socialism is superior to the decadent type of Capitalism we have in the Western World.”

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Letter to The Guardian (1 December 1961), quoted in Bryan Magee, The New Radicalism (1963), p. 102, n.

“After all, it is not the pursuit of happiness but the enlargement of freedom which is socialism's aim.”

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‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), p. 29

“The main task of socialism to-day is to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of either industrial management or the state bureaucracy—in brief, to distribute responsibility and so to enlarge freedom of choice.”

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‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), p. 27

“Profits, wages and salaries are still determined not by any conditions of national interest or social justice, but by the traditional methods of laisser-faire. Under conditions of full employment, this must result in a continuous inflationary pressure, which undermines the real value of social security and small savings, as well as making our products less competitive in foreign markets and so jeopardising our capacity to maintain the standard of living.”

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‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), pp. 26–27

“To realise that the socialist society is not the norm, evolved by material conditions, but the exception, imposed on immoral society by human will and social conscience, is not to emasculate our socialism, but to set ourselves a challenge.”

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Richard Crossman

‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), p. 15

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