Raymond Aron quotes
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“Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.”
-- Raymond AronSource : Raymond Aron (1957). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
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“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 AronSource : Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers
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“Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.”
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“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 AronSource : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers
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“In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.”
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“Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”
-- Raymond AronSource : The Opium of the Intellectuals Chapter IX (p. 284}
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“Racism is the snobbery of the poor.”
-- Raymond AronSource : Raymond Aron (1968). “Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society”
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“Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.”
-- Raymond AronSource : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.31, Transaction Publishers
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“In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.”
-- Raymond AronSource : 1971 Politics and History.
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“Peace is impossible, war is improbable.”
-- Raymond AronSource : Raymond Aron (1997). “Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology”, p.227, Transaction Publishers
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“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”
-- Raymond AronSource : Raymond Aron (2017). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.156, Routledge
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