Alan Bullock Quotes

#1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, Simon and Schuster, 1960, New York; Hitler, a Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bullock, Harper, 1953, New York;

Philip K. Dick

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

Alan Bullock

#3. I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

Jamel Shabazz

#4. Evil is a form of incompetence.

Alan Bullock

#5. I'm so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish

J.A. Redmerski

#6. The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Alan Bullock

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. And you are not coming back here," She insisted,"So dont give me any empty promises.

Rick Riordan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable.

Tony Judt

#13. I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

Lynn Swann

#14. It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

Lee L Jampolsky

#15. Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Bullock

#16. Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Alan Bullock

#17. 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