Joseph de Maistre Quotes

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

Joseph de Maistre



All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph De Maistre



Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph de Maistre



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.

Joseph De Maistre



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.

Joseph de Maistre



If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph de Maistre