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.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.