Top 10 Quotes by Alan Bullock

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

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

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

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

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

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Alan Bullock

Evil, Good And Evil, Incompetence

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.

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