Raymond AronThinkers

Animism is a belief in spirits (a result of man's experience of their two-fold nature of body and soul).

Optimism is most often merely the effect of an intellectual error.

Politics is not a choice between good and evil, but between the preferable and the detestable.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Revolution is the opium for the intelligentsia.

Socialism is responsible for having reduced the standard of living of the masses while capitalism has raised the standard of living, reduced working hours, and permitted the consolidation of labor unions.

A Society is, by nature, heterogeneous in relation to individuals, a phenomenon, a force whose basis is the collectivity and not the sum of the individuals.