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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.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

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

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.