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 Copy Share Image
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 to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
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… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct is now… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office.… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
