Louis de Bonald Quotes on Politics
Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, was a French traditionalist philosopher and statesman and, with Joseph de Maistre, one of the principal theorists of the post-revolutionary Catholic reaction. This page collects quotes attributed to Louis de Bonald on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Louis de Bonald:
“Society is older than the individual.”
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Attributed to Louis de Bonald:
“Religion and the social order rise and fall together.”
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Attributed to Louis de Bonald:
“What philosophy has unmade, only tradition can remake.”
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Attributed to Louis de Bonald:
“The family is the cell from which all wider order grows.”
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“Marriage is therefore not an ordinary contract , since in terminating it, the two parties cannot return themselves to the same state they were in before entering into it. And if the contract is voluntary at the time it is entered into, it can no longer be voluntary, and almost never is, at the time of its termination, since the party which manifests the desire to dissolve it takes all liberty from the other party to refuse, and has only too many means to force its consent.”
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