Raymond Aron Quotes
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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.
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In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
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Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
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Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
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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.
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Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
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In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
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