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.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself,....

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....

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which....

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.