Quotes by : Bertrand De Jouvenel

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

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 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....

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....

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,....

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