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“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Two #Intellectual #Different
“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.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Income #Matter #Individual
“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.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Art #Slavery #Invasion
“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.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Fall #Years #Magic
“Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Passion #Men #Order
“Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Sheep #Government #Sooner Or Later
“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.”
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Democracy #Shapes #Patterns

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