All Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
- The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer… Always Right
- 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… Art
- 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.… Ago
- 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… Air
- 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… Becomes
- Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves. Create
- 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. Absolutist
- A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. Beget