Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
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 …
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…
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.
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves. - 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 … - 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 …
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. …
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