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Joseph de Maistre
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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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