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 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....

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

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

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....