In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

- Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

- Raymond Aron

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

- Raymond Aron

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

- Raymond Aron

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

- Raymond Aron

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

- Raymond Aron

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

- Raymond Aron

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their p…

- Raymond Aron

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution…

- Raymond Aron