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Top 15 Bertrand De Jouvenel Quotes (2025 Update)

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.”

1. “Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.”

2. “There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “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.”

5. “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

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.”

6. “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

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.”

7. “Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.”

9. “As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “The entire stock of relationships which suited in war – militiae – was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace – domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.”

10. “The entire stock of relationships which suited in war – militiae – was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace – domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.”

11. “No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.”

12. “It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.”

13. “A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.”

14. “The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Bertrand De Jouvenel Quote: “As we shall see, theories like those of Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty, which pass for opposites, stem in reality from the same trunk, the idea of sovereignty – the idea, that is, that somewhere there is a right to which all other rights must yield. It is not hard to discover behind this juridical concept a metaphysical one.”

15. “As we shall see, theories like those of Divine Right and Popular Sovereignty, which pass for opposites, stem in reality from the same trunk, the idea of sovereignty – the idea, that is, that somewhere there is a right to which all other rights must yield. It is not hard to discover behind this juridical concept a metaphysical one.”

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

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