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The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere. -- Raymond Aron
Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds. -- Raymond Aron
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. -- Raymond Aron
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian. -- Raymond Aron
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. -- Raymond Aron
Racism is the snobbery of the poor. -- Raymond Aron
Peace imposible,war improbable. -- Raymond Aron
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. -- Raymond Aron
Peace is impossible, war is improbable. -- Raymond Aron
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. -- Raymond Aron
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. -- Raymond Aron
Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to it. -- Raymond Aron
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. -- Raymond Aron
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. -- Raymond Aron
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. -- Raymond Aron