Jacques Maritain Quotes on Politics
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher and one of the architects of the twentieth-century revival of Thomism. This page collects quotes attributed to Jacques Maritain on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jacques Maritain:
“Human rights are the rights of human beings as moral persons.”
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Attributed to Jacques Maritain:
“There is one human nature, common to all the diverse cultures of mankind.”
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“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”
The Twilight of Civilization (1939). London: Sheed & Ward, 1946, p. 41. -
“Scholasticism and Politics (1940)”
In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiri