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.
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.
- 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… - 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…
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…
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 …
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
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.
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman… - Bertrand De Jouvenel
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman…
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as … - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as …
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. - Bertrand De Jouvenel
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
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