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,....

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....

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

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

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