France Quote by Raymond Aron Download Open image “Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.” — Raymond Aron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Nostalgic Political Politics Utopian
I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way. — Jain Copy Share Image
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.” — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
