Tag: Joseph de Maistre

Creating difficulties for himself for the pleasure of resolving them is a strange human mania.

Joseph de Maistre

It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master.

Joseph de Maistre

A woman can only be superior as a woman; as soon as she wants to emulate man, she is nothing but an ape.

Joseph de Maistre

The vices are very justly man’s executioners.

Joseph de Maistre

Unhappily, history proves that war is, in a certain sense, the habitual state of mankind, which is to say that human blood must flow without interruption somewhere or other on the globe, and that for every nation, peace is only a respite.

Joseph de Maistre

The arts, in general, need a king; they only flourish under the influence of sceptres.

Joseph de Maistre

Nothing great has great beginnings.

Joseph de Maistre

This makes me think that the French Revolution is a great epoch and that its consequences, in all kinds of ways, will be felt far beyond the time of its explosion and the limits of its birthplace.

Joseph de Maistre

All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

Joseph de Maistre

Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.

Every nation gets the government it deserves.

Joseph de Maistre