"A society of sheep must in time beget……" — Bertrand De Jouvenel
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
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Bertrand De Jouvenel
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8 Quotes by Bertrand De Jouvenel
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the…
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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and…
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by…
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of…
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The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of…
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Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time…
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