DeMaistre and Bonald ... wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald's phrase, "the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.”. (Alain Finkielkraut)

DeMaistre and Bonald ... wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald's phrase, "the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.”.

Alain Finkielkraut

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