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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.
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The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
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I believe neither in chance nor in miracle, but only in phenomena regulated by laws.
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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
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It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
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Bertrand de Jouvenel
Born:
October 31, 1903
Died:
March 1, 1987
(aged 83)
Bio:
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel, was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.
Known for:
The ethics of redistribution (1951)
The pure theory of politics (1963)
The art of conjecture (1967)
The Nature of politics (1987)
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