15 Quotes by Joseph Maistre
- A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
- I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
- If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
- In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
- It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
- Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
- Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
- Every country has the government it deserves.
- There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
- We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
- We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
- Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
- There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
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