"The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is……" — Joseph de Maistre
"The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death."
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Joseph de Maistre
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32 Quotes by Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre has 32 quotes on this site.
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences…
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only…
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and…
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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has…
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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart…
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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More Altar Quotes
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a…
— Michelle Obama
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