In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

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.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.