Democracy Against Itself: The Future of the Democratic Impulse (1993), Revel, Free Press (1993), p. 264 , 9780029263877
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It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to … However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.

— Jean-François Revel

What It Means

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Jean-François Revel

About Jean-François Revel

Jean-François Revel (19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French philosopher.