Quotes by : Bertrand De Jouvenel

It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception....

The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common....

The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any....

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism....

These observations bring out the fact that, whenever liberty is regarded merely as the power to do something....

Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different,....

The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of....

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants,....

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to....