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.
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 …
- 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
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 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…
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. …
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 …
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.
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.
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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