Bertrand De Jouvenel

Quotes

• “Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those...”
• “The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. ...”
• “Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance whi...”
• “Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of...”
• “We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and...”
• “It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to ...”
• “The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the...”
• “Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”