Жозеф де Местр цитаты

Жозеф-Мари, граф де Местр — франкоязычный католический философ, литератор, политик и дипломат, основоположник политического консерватизма. Известен как один из наиболее влиятельных идеологов консерватизма в конце XVIII — начале XIX веков. Старший брат Ксавье де Местра . Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Апрель 1753 – 26. Февраль 1821
Жозеф де Местр фото
Жозеф де Местр: 16   цитат 38   Нравится

Жозеф де Местр знаменитые цитаты

Жозеф де Местр: Цитаты на английском языке

“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”

The Count, in Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, "Second Dialogue," (1821).

“Every nation gets the government it deserves.”

Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.
Correspondance diplomatique, tome 2. Paris : Michel Lévy frères libraires éditeurs, 1860, p.196.
Famous Sayings and their Authors, Edward Latham, 1906, Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=xvkNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181.
Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus, 2003, Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=D8yVAC8CtO4C&printsec=frontcover.
Letter 76, on the topic of Russia's new constitutional laws (27 August 1811); published in Lettres et Opuscules. The English translation has several variations, including "Every country has the government it deserves" and "In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." The quote is popularly misattributed to better-known commentators such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln.

“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.”

Les fausses opinions ressemblent à la fausse monnaie qui est frappée d'abord par de grands coupables et dépensée ensuite par d'honnêtes gens qui perpétuent le crime sans savoir ce qu'ils font.
Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, Ch. I

“Never have nations been civilized, except by religion.”

XXXIII, p. 99
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809)

“It is imagination that loses battles.”

Источник: St. Petersburg Dialogues (1821), "Seventh Dialogue," p. 221