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 into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
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…
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 …
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 …
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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