Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Charles Maurras
24 quotes
“The bourgeoisie does not understand the labour question.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Action Française (30 July 1908), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 310
“There can be no social peace in the Republic, and social reform is impossible without the king.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Action Française (1 August 1908), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 310
“Official orators have agreed amongst themselves to leave out one essential point: that to undertake the liberation of the fatherland, Joan had to go directly to the Dauphin Charles, acknowledge the right of his royal blood, and have him crowned and acclaimed on the cathedral square of Reims.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Action Française (12 May 1929), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 162
“Napoleon personifies the ironic and harsh response of the military men of the XIX century to the literary dreams of the XVIII.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of these two powers in conflict, Intelligentsia and Force, which seemed to win in the course of the same century?”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ronsard and Malherbe, Corneille and Bossuet defended in their time the state, the king, the fatherland, property, the family and religion. Romantic literature attacked the laws or the state, public and private discipline, the fatherland, the family and property; an almost unique condition of their success seemed to be to please the opposition, to work towards anarchy.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion is the first of the powers that can oppose the plutocracies, and especially a religion that is as strongly organised as Catholicism; instituted as a function of the state it loses a large part of its independence and, if money is the master of the state, it loses its outspokenness against money. Material power triumphs without the control of its principal spiritual antagonist.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After the Commune, thousands of workers were shot, while the leaders were allowed to escape; a King of France would have punished the leaders mercilessly, but he would have spared the people.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 448, quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 310
“What are Pavia or Rosbach...compared to Sedan or Waterloo? Revolutions have succeeded revolutions. The state is bankrupt. Three times foreign invaders have occupied Paris. We have had two civil wars. We have witnessed the making of Italian unity and German unity and the enormous expansion of the double Anglo-Saxon empire. Never has political France been so small. And since then she has accomplished her masterpiece of smallness. She has turned herself into a Republic, in other words she has deliberately chosen to be weak and defeated.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: pp. 496-497, quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), pp. 123-124
“Comte put to flight the pernicious and artificial doctrine according to which there is an opposition between the interests of the ruler and the ruled, for the latter derives his greatest benefit from being directed and guided... Renan finally made me aware of the service any élite, when it sincerely concerns itself with the highest considerations, renders and must render to the multitude, even unconsciously.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: pp. 10-11, quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 144
“That France may live, the King must return.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 49, quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 148
“We are Gallo-Romans.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gallic strength, Roman order, such is, in my opinion, the civil state of our fatherland.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In spite of the boiling aspect of the French character which, in times of difficulty, erupts with ferocity and which takes the form of an excessive gaiety in entertainments ... there are no human beings more orderly than the French. Their economics, the care they take to keep accounts, their skill in organising simple pleasures that cause them to forget their fatigue, the careful grooming of the women, the fine order of their meals, even in humble homes, everything in the private life of the people attests to a cautious and systematic temperament that does not tolerate improvisation.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The French woman is, in France, everywhere a queen: at the salon, the farm, the shop, the large store.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“France was called the 'feminine nation'. It would be better to call it the 'androgyneous people'. It is the androgyne of Plato, the male and female being which grants the sceptre alternately to the mind and to the heart when it does not confer sovereignty, as often happens, to the simultaneous synthesis of both.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The king is so visible that he is almost too responsible for everything: the republic, a collectivity that cannot be responsible for anything, serves as a nickname for everybody and nobody, a good-for-nothing and destructive anonymity.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To feel national is to feel royalist.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are certain conservatives in France who fill us with disgust. Why? Because of their stupidity. What kind of stupidity? Hitlerism. These French "conservatives" crawl on their bellies before Hitler. These former nationalists cringe before him. A few zealots wallow in dirt, in their own dirt, with endless Heils. The wealthier they are, the more they own, the more important it is to make them understand that if Hitler invaded us he would skin them much more thoroughly than Blum, Thorez and Stalin combined. This "conservative" error is suicidal. We must appeal to our friends not to let themselves be befogged. We must tell them: Be on your guard! What is now at stake is not anti-democracy or anti-Semitism. France above all!”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Action Française (25 March 1938), quoted in Leopold Schwarzschild, World in Trance (1943), p. 268
“Thanks to the gods, the writing corporation has since then found itself equal to the leaders of the state. It even surpasses them all. They are only members and it is their superb head. Nothing restricts us. We lack nothing either. We had the pleasures of intellectual life, to these are added the satisfaction of greatness in a worldly sense: power and wealth. Letters and sciences lead to everything. How many old students of the normal school, the École nationale des Chartres, or the École des hautes études became presidents of assemblies, ministers of the state! No distinctions adorn us and it is we who embellish them when we deign to accept one.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literary independence is realised, if one thinks of it, only in the extreme type of the great lord placed by birth or by a stroke of fortune above influences and need (a La Rochefoucauld, a Lavoisier, if you like) and in the corresponding type of the beggar sustained by black bread, his thirst quenched by pure water, sleeping on a pallet, a dog like Diogenes or an angel like Saint Francis, but too occupied with his dream and repeating too often his unum necessarium, to perceive that he is lacking in vital commodities. For diverse reasons both of them, being without needs, are free. They know no other profound joy. For those, the only ones who are right, writing is perhaps a trade. It will never be a profession.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The difficulties of this enterprise, if they were even stronger, would be less than the difficulty of causing our dignity, our honour to survive under the rule of the impending plutocracy. That is not the most difficult thing; that is that which is impossible. Thus exposed to perish under a victorious quantity, intellectual quality absolutely does not risk anything in making an effort; if it loves itself, if it loves our last relics of influence and liberty, if it has some visions of the future and some ambition for France, it is fitting for it to lead the reaction of the desperate. Faced with this sinister prospect, the national intelligentsia should ally itself with those who try to do something beautiful before sinking. In the name of reason and nature, consonant with the ancient laws of the universe, for the welfare of order, for the duration and progress of a threatened civilisation, all hopes are borne on the ship of Counter-Revolution.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This pre-existing capital brings men fortune and honour, equips and refines them from the moment they come into the world, without anything having been done about it by these happy animals... Whatever brings together this beneficent capital is therefore a good thing; whatever dissipates it is less good. Work is good, saving is good... It is in the closely knit and stable circle of the home that production, acquisition, conservation have the greatest chance of success, for the personal instinct is there moderated and regulated by immediate affection, and generosity balanced by healthy egoism. Thus strength, duration and hereditary are related and linked; so are also the constitution of great families, the accumulation of vast possessions, the possibility of education and culture.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 12, quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 145
“In London and Berlin, at the time when Berlin and London flourished, the government was dynastic; it was so in Paris when Paris flourished. Dynastic succession creates the coherence of all the strength of an empire. Etymology would tell one that, in the absence of history. Not only because dynasty does without the exhausting system of electoral and parliamentary competition, but because it is good and beautiful that the authority of the sovereign authority should not be a force fashioned by human hand, that it should come to us from the most ancient times, and that the centuries should have created it for us and transmitted it to us, named it and imposed it on us ready-made, helped as it were by its legitimacy, that right of the leaders which is based on the fact that they played the major part in the creation of the country.”
Charles Maurras (1868–1952) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 48, quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), pp. 147-148