Alan Bullock Quotes

• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  Alan Bullock

  Integrity, Patriotic, Firsts

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• Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

  Alan Bullock

  Law, Foundation, Enabling

  Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div

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• Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

  Alan Bullock

  Determination, Self, Principles

  Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div

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• If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

  Alan Bullock

  Country, Political, Democracy

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• Evil is a form of incompetence.

  Alan Bullock

  Evil, Good And Evil, Incompetence

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• Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

  Alan Bullock

  Democracy, Speech, Committees

  "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

  Alan Bullock

  People, Way, Corruption

  "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

  Alan Bullock

  Past, Race, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

  Alan Bullock

  Weekend, Alive, Boring

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• Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

  Alan Bullock

  Names

  "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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