Joseph de Maistre Quotes

• In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

  Joseph de Maistre

  People, Leader, Democracy

  Letter 76 in Lettres et Opuscules, August 27, 1811.

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• Every country has the government it deserves.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Country, Freedom, Government

  Lettres et Opuscules Inedits vol. 1, no. 53 (1851) (letter of 15 Aug. 1811)

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• Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

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  Degradation, Language, Individual

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• The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

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  Women, Desire, Faults

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• 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.

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  Money, Men, Knowing

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.239, Routledge

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• To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Motivational, Success, Patience

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• Toda grandeza, todo poder y toda subordinación a la autoridad descansan en el verdugo: él es el horror y el vínculo de la asociación humana. Si se retira del mundo a este incomprensible agente, en ese mismo instante el orden da paso al caos, los tronos se derrumban y la sociedad desaparece.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Order, Giving, Thrones

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• 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.

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  Love, Power, Men

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• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Opposites, Revolution, Needed

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• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

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  Life, Death, Art

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• 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.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Philosophy, Real, Taught Us

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.64, Routledge

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

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  Freedom, Men, Wicked

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• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

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  Life, Death, Sacrifice

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

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  Constitution, Made, Nations

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.80, Routledge

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• It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Education, Weakness, Mediocrity

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• Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

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  Arte, Filosofía, Hombres

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• Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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  Civilization, Found, Altars

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.257, Routledge

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• Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

  Joseph de Maistre

  God, Nature, Moving

  "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment".

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• There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

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  Art, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.232, Routledge

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• In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Arms, Kingdoms, Reign

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• Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a
  question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought,
  distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has
  considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually
  simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do
  not bear examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Views, Giving

  Joseph de Maistre, Richard Lebrun (1993). “St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence”, p.205, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

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  Creativity, Men, Gambling

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.128, Routledge

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• 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.

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  Divine Guidance, Ties, Thrones

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Dolor

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.299, Routledge

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• Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

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