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QUOTE 1: “All grandeur, all power, and 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.” [The Works of
Joseph de Maistre, ed. Jack Lively (1965). The Count, in Les Soirées de
Saint-Pétersbourg, "First Dialogue," (1821).]
QUOTE 2: All pain is a punishment, and every punishment
is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
AUTHOR: Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a
French-speaking Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was one
of the most influential spokesmen for hierarchical authoritarianism in the
period immediately following the French Revolution of 1789.
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