"The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states."

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Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

Bernard Crick

#Skills Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Consistency Quotes

“The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.”
“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”
“Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”
“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”
“The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press
“I've crashed my car three times.”
“We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.”

Source : "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.
“I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself.”

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