Alan Bullock Born : December 13, 1914 Died : February 2, 2004 Browse All Authors 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 immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. Alan Bullock patriotic integrity firsts Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock foundation enabling law Evil is a form of incompetence. Alan Bullock incompetence good-and-evil evil 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 principles self 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 democracy political country Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock committees democracy speech The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way. Alan Bullock corruption people way 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 nuclear-disarmament race past 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 boring alive Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature. Alan Bullock names
