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Jean Francois Revel

Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French journalist, philosopher, and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards. A socialist in his youth, Revel later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics.

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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.

Civilization, Defend, Doe, Energy, Feels, Guilty

A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

Groups, Human, Ideas, Proof, Suggestions, Transforms

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.

Consists, Exercise, Important, People, Tyranny

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.

Crushingly, Democracy, Imminent, Littles, Survival, Threats

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

Religious, Europe, Political, Cultural, Hobgoblin

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

Democracy, Principles, Definitions, Subversives, Treats

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