Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Honesty, Integrity, War

• Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Religious, War, Religion

• There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Civil War, Kingdoms

• A rational army would run away.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, War, Army

• As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Equality, Men

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

• The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Real, War, Law

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

• Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Different, States

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, War, Empires

• I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Religious, War, Spirit

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 65, 1721.

• There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Order, Two

  "Persian Letters". No. 95, 1721.

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