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Tag: Bertrand de Jouvenel

(1903-1987) French philosopher, political economist, and futurist

Socialism: Less power, less money for the people

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 22, 2016February 16, 2021Format QuoteCategories socialismTags Bertrand de Jouvenel

Sheep and wolves

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 10, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories informed electorateTags Bertrand de Jouvenel

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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