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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

  • Attributed to Louis de Bonald:

    “Society is older than the individual.”

  • Attributed to Louis de Bonald:

    “Religion and the social order rise and fall together.”

  • Attributed to Louis de Bonald:

    “What philosophy has unmade, only tradition can remake.”

  • Attributed to Louis de Bonald:

    “The family is the cell from which all wider order grows.”