Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes

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

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
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• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
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• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
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• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Law
  • Government

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
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• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• You have to create something from nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Create

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Hand
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  • See

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
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  • Government

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
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• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Change
  • Government
  • Care

• Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Internet
  • Create
  • Generation

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Government

• Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Society

• That is what government of the people, by the people, and for the people means, and women are people equally with men.

  

  Edith Rogers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.

  

  Josh Malerman
  • Books
  • Conversations
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• Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Society
  • Government
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