Wednesday, February 26, 2014

JOSEPH DE MAISTRE’S PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTES [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTES OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2014 TO SATURDAY MARCH 1, 2014]



 

Joseph de Maistre
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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