Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.
For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose cla… - Bertrand De Jouvenel
For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose cla…
- Bertrand De Jouvenel
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves. - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. … - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. …
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished … - Bertrand De Jouvenel
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished …
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation. - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer t… - Bertrand De Jouvenel
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer t…
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead. - Bertrand De Jouvenel
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and c… - Bertrand De Jouvenel
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and c…
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