The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.
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.
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone … - Bertrand De Jouvenel
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone …
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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.
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