Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.