We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

— Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
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