Raymond Aron Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Revolution #Language #Speak
“The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Intellectual #Atheism #Want
“Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Atheism #Events #Nostalgia
“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Party #Practice #Names
“In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Writing #Two #Firsts
“Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Future #Enemy #Manipulate
“Racism is the snobbery of the poor.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Racism #Poor
“Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.”
-- Raymond Aron

#Political #France #Nostalgic

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