Jean-François Revel citáty

Jean-François Revel byl francouzský spisovatel a filosof.

Jeho rodné jméno bylo Jean-François Ricard, později ale přijal pseudonym Revel. Na prestižní škole École normale supérieure vystudoval filozofii a poté až do roku 1963 pracoval jako učitel filozofie v Alžírsku, Itálii, Mexiku a francouzském Lille. Následně se začal věnovat psaní knih, v roce 1971 se Revel proslavil dílem Bez Marxe nebo Ježíše. Od roku 1998 byl také členem Francouzské akademie .

Revel zemřel ve věku 82 let v pařížské nemocnici Le Kremlin-Bicêtre na srdeční problémy. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. leden 1924 – 30. duben 2006
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Jean-François Revel: Citáty anglicky

“Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.”

Cited in The Effects of Mass Immigration On Canadian Living Standards and Society (2009). ed. Grubel, The Frasier Institute, pp. 202-203 ISBN 088975246X, 9780889752467
1980s, How Democracies Perish (1983)

“It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to … However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.”

Democracy Against Itself: The Future of the Democratic Impulse (1993), Revel, Free Press (1993), p. 264 ISBN 0029263875, 9780029263877
1990s, Democracy Against Itself: The Future of the Democratic Impulse (1993)

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

This quote was used, and attributed to Jean-Francois Revel, 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.), ed. William Safire, W. W. Norton & Co. (2004), p. 1029 ISBN 0393059316, 9780393059311
1980s

“The United States is the only country where these revolutions are simultaneously in progress and organically linked in such a way as to constitute a single revolution.”

Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun https://archive.org/details/withoutmarxorjes00reverich (1971) quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy, The Aquarian Conspiracy, by Marilyn Ferguson (1980)
1970s

“Today in America—the child of European imperialism—a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time... and offers the only possible escape for mankind today.”

Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun (1971) quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy, by Marilyn Ferguson, Chapter 5 (1980)
1970s

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