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.

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

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

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

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.

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.