Bertrand de Jouvenel Quote

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.


Power: the natural history of its growth (ed. London, Batchworth P, 1952)


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...

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...

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...

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...