Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.” ~ Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) French philosopher, political economist, and futuristSource: Du Pouvoir. Histoire naturelle de sa croissance [1945] (Paris: Hachette, 1972), p. 36; English translation: On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 15.