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Quotes from On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth — Bertrand de Jouvenel

1903–1987 France

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Command is a mountain top. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius of construction, which are part of man’s natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.

On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth (1949)

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