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 clash can be settled only by political or military force; and… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment,… — 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
