Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
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.
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
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.