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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.

— Jean-François Revel Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun (1971)

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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.

Strangely, it is always America that is described as degenerate and 'fascist', while it is solely in Europe that actual dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up.

Europe's Anti-American Obsession (2003)

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

How Democracies Perish (1983)

The strange thing is that it's always in Europe that dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up, yet it's always America that is "fascist".

Anti-Americanism (2003)

Anti-Americanism thus defined is less a popular prejudice than a parti pris of the political, cultural and religious elites.

Anti-Americanism (2003)

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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