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Élie Halévy
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“Charity towards mankind as a whole, Hope in the future welfare of the human race, Faith in the possibility of furthering, through co-operation between nations, the cause of knowledge and culture, of everything that the eighteenth century, the most Anglo-French century in history, called by a fine name, "enlightenment"—Les Lumières. It is in this philosophical spirit that I mean to approach my difficult subject.”
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The World Crisis of 1914–1918: An Interpretation (1930), p. 4
“Modern socialism is a doctrine with a double aspect... It is a doctrine of emancipation...and it is a doctrine of organisation.”
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Era of Tyrannies (1938; trans. edn. 1967), p. 80
“The Labour leaders are men whose doctrine requires them to make the state stronger, and whose good British instinct is to make the state as weak as possible.”
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Era of Tyrannies (1938; trans. edn. 1967), p. 198
“I can still hear Sidney Webb explaining to me that the future lay with the great administrative nations, where governing was done by the bureaucrats and order was maintained by the policemen.”
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Era of Tyrannies (1938; trans. edn. 1967), p. 209