Quotes by Maistre, Joseph De

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. >>

Every country has the government it deserves. >>

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. >>

Quotations about Violence

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist. >>

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer fall >>

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun >>

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Maistre, Joseph De