“Tous ceux qui préfèrent la paix à la puissance et le bonheur à la gloire devraient remercier les peuples colonisés de leur mission civilisatrice: en se libérant de leur joug, ils ont rendu les Européens plus modestes, moins racistes et plus humains. Pourvu que cela continue et que les Américains finissent par être forcés de suivre cette voie.”

Orientalism

Public opinion polls suggest that only a small minority (13 percent) of Americans favor the proposition that 'as the sole remaining superpower, the US should continue to be the preeminent world leader in solving international problems'. [...] As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. [...] More generally, cultural change in America may also be uncongenial to the sustained exercise abroad of genuinely imperial power. That exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification. [...] Mass communications have been playing a particularly important role in that regard, generating a strong revulsion against any selective use of force that entails even low levels of casualties [...] In brief, the U.S. Policy goals must be un-apologetically twofold: to perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer
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Le Grand Echiquier - 1997

Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire, 1829

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Citations propres, Totem et tabou

Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961

Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ?, 1962

, 2000