JOSEPH DE MAISTRE QUOTES

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world.... War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it.

JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, "Seventh Dialogue"

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.

JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, "Seventh Dialogue", St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence