Alan Bullock Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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 Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Unorthodox Quotes

“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 Quotes #Alive Quotes #Boring Quotes

“The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.”
-- Alan Bullock

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

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Corruption Quotes

“Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.”
-- Alan Bullock

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

#Law Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Enabling Quotes

“Evil is a form of incompetence.”
-- Alan Bullock

#Evil Quotes #Good And Evil Quotes #Incompetence Quotes

“Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.”
-- Alan Bullock

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

#Names Quotes

“Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.”
-- Alan Bullock

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

#Democracy Quotes #Speech Quotes #Committees Quotes

“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

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

#Determination Quotes #Self Quotes #Principles Quotes

“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 Quotes #Political Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“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 Quotes #Race Quotes #Nuclear Disarmament Quotes