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

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

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....

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

Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée....

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.