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Alan Bullock was a distinguished British historian known for his research on the political and intellectual history of the 20th century. His works covered political figures and movements from World War I to the Cold War period.

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“Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.”

Comunismo Politica Fascismo Chavez Tiranía Maduro Demagogia Nueva Izquierda

Book:El Siglo XX

Source: El Siglo XX

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

Self Principles Cases Determination Arguing Application Self Determination Plausible

Book:Hitler, a study in tyranny

Source: Hitler, a study in tyranny

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Country Political Nations Social Democracy Events Creation Depends Institutions Voters Cohesion Political Institutions

Author: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.”

Firsts Objects Produce Integrity Understood Patterns Propaganda Convince Patriotic Uniforms Utterance Dissonance Unorthodox

Author:Alan Bullock

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

Has Beens Greater Alive Boring Extremes Spending Certainty Weekend Coming Back

Author:Alan Bullock

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

People Way Corruption Behave Inhuman

Author:Alan Bullock

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

Law Foundation Dictatorship Enabling Single Relationship

Book:Hitler, a study in tyranny

Source: Hitler, a study in tyranny

“Evil is a form of incompetence.”

Form Evil Good And Evil Incompetence

Author:Alan Bullock

“Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.”

Names

Author:Alan Bullock

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

Democracy Speech Committees

Author:Alan Bullock

About the Author

Born: December 13, 1914
Died: February 2, 2004
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

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