Jean Francois Revel Quotes

• El fenómeno totalitario no puede entenderse sin tener en cuenta la tesis de que una parte importante de cada sociedad está formada por personas que desean activamente la tiranía: ya sea para ejercerla ellos mismos o, lo que es mucho más misterioso, para someterse a ella.

  Jean François Revel

  Exercise, People, Important

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• Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

  Jean François Revel

  Civilization, Energy, Doe

  Attributed by Jeane Kirkpatrick in her August 20, 1984 speech to the Republican national convention in Dallas, Texas, as cited in "Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History" (rev.), edited by William Safire, W. W. Norton & Co., (p. 1029), 2004.

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• Un grupo humano se transforma en multitud cuando de repente responde a una sugestión más que a un razonamiento, a una imagen más que a una idea, a una afirmación más que a una prueba, a la repetición de una frase más que a argumentos, al prestigio más que a la competencia.

  Jean François Revel

  Ideas, Suggestions, Groups

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.

  Jean François Revel

  Survival, Democracy, Littles

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• To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

  Jean François Revel

  Democracy, Principles, Definitions

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• In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

  Jean François Revel

  Religious, Europe, Political

  "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" by Jean Francois Revel in The American Enterprise Magazine (column "The View From Abroad"), December 2003.

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