Quotes by : Joseph de Maistre

To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committee....

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be found....

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has,....

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences....

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it....

Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for....

[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being....

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest....

Every country has the government it deserves.