Georges Bernanos on Violence: Unveiling the Fatal Mysticism of Totalitarianism

„It is not the use of violence that seems to me condemnable, but its mysticism, the religion of violence in the service of the totalitarian state, in the service of the dictatorship of the general welfare, considered not as a means but as an end.“

Georges BernanosGeorges Bernanos reveals the dangerous mysticism of violence as a tool serving totalitarian dictatorships. Learn more about his thoughts.
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Georges Bernanos was a French writer known for his profound and often religious works. He is sometimes called the 'French Dostoevsky'.

Bernanos warns against the dangerous mystification of violence as a religious end, used to justify rule in totalitarian regimes.


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Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was a French writer known for novels such as 'Monsieur Ouine' and 'Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune'. His works critically engage with totalitarianism and blend spirituality with politics.

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"Young people are accused of using violence. But are we not in a perpetual state of violence? Because we were born and raised in prison, we no longer notice that we are stuck in a hole with our hands and feet chained and a gag in our mouths. What do you call a lawful state? A law that turns the vast majority of citizens into servile cattle in order to satisfy the unnatural needs of an insignificant and corrupt minority? And this law, supported by brute military force and the stupid cleverness of its agents, this law is eternal, brute force, contrary to justice and common sense, and I will fight against it with my mouth and my hands wherever I can." Karl Georg Büchner
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"No State can commit so many follies and deeds of violence as the democratic State, for it alone has the organic consciousness of its infallibility, sanctity, and complete legitimacy. Even the most absolute monarchy has limitations of a hundred kinds, in the personal consciousness of responsibility of the ruler (which under democracy is always put on the intangible "will of the people"), in the court clique, in the Church, in the advisers and ministers and "government circles" that inevitably crystallize around every potentate. Moreover, the fear of dethronement, which is theoretically always possible, affects every sole-ruler. But a treacherous circular reasoning protects the rule of the "sovereign people" from any limitation — it is in the right because it is the collective will, and is the collective will because it is in the right." Egon Friedell
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"I’ve always abhorred violence and am highly sensitised to it. I do not think it benefits society or indeed any individual to become tolerant of violence… I feel if I can accept the abuse of these innocent, sentient creatures and my role in it then I could easily become apathetic about…well, everything, and that is a scary thought." Evanna Patricia Lynch
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Quote about tyranny through religion and science by Clive Staples LewisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled." Clive Staples Lewis
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“Ce n’est pas l’usage de la force qui me paraît condamnable, mais sa mystique ; la religion de la Force mise au service de l’Etat totalitaire, de la dictature du Salut Public, considérée, non comme un moyen, mais comme une fin.”

Les grands cimetières sous la lune de Georges Bernanos

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