67 Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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 is horrible.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Christianity is preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing.

Every nation has the government it deserves