Quotes by : Bertrand De Jouvenel

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

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged....

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

The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character....

The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper....

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond....

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

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.