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Bertrand de Jouvenel has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 businessman's motto…
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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 leading away…
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance…
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Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley…
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The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income…
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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 of tyranny's…
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A society of sheep must in time beget 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 of tyranny's…
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