Joseph de Maistre Quotes
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; i...
Show MoreA constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury w...
Show MoreFalse opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
Show MoreEvery country has the government it deserves.
To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committ...
Show More[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without bei...
Show MoreHuman reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for...
Show MoreAll sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be f...
Show MoreMan's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himse...
Show MoreMan is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha...
Show MoreWar is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...
Show MoreMan in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Every nation has the government that it deserves.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
