Bernard Crick Quotes

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Hitler does not wait for congress.

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin. Hillary Clinton knows exactly who this guy is. John McCain said, I look in his eyes and I see KGB. And Hillary kind of has that same feeling.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.