{"id":4516,"date":"2017-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/rostand-tant-quil-y-aura-des-dictatures-je-naurai-pas-le-coeur-a-critiquer-une-democratie\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:24","slug":"rostand-tant-quil-y-aura-des-dictatures-je-naurai-pas-le-coeur-a-critiquer-une-democratie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/rostand-tant-quil-y-aura-des-dictatures-je-naurai-pas-le-coeur-a-critiquer-une-democratie\/","title":{"rendered":"Rostand : \u00ab Tant qu&#039;il y aura des dictatures, je n&#039;aurai pas le c\u0153ur \u00e0 critiquer une d\u00e9mocratie.\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9fendre la d\u00e9mocratie, tenter de la d\u00e9finir, donner les conditions de son fonctionnement\u2026 autant de r\u00e9flexions citoyennes emprunt\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019Histoire en citations. <\/p>\n<p>Pens\u00e9es sign\u00e9es d\u2019auteurs tr\u00e8s divers et \u00e0 m\u00e9diter en ce printemps 2017, quel que soit le parti auquel on appartient ou l\u2019orientation politique dont on se sent proche.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Tant qu\u2019il y aura des dictatures, je n\u2019aurai pas le c\u0153ur \u00e0 critiquer une d\u00e9mocratie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"3035\" class=\"cit-num\">3035<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/jean-rostand\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Jean <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">ROSTAND<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1894-1977), <cite>Inqui\u00e9tudes d\u2019un biologiste<\/cite> (1967)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Au-del\u00e0 de d\u00e9bats politiques et constitutionnels certes l\u00e9gitimes, mais souvent partisans, un grand savant tient \u00e0 replacer nos querelles franco-fran\u00e7aises \u00e0 leur juste niveau. Qu\u2019importe le contexte, ce principe demeure valable.<\/p>\n<p>Dans le m\u00eame esprit, rappelons le mot de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/clemenceau\">Clemenceau<\/a>, le \u00ab\u00a0Tigre\u00a0\u00bb, le redoutable \u00ab\u00a0Tombeur de minist\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb, rendant hommage au r\u00e9gime parlementaire de la (Troisi\u00e8me) R\u00e9publique si d\u00e9cri\u00e9\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Gloire aux pays o\u00f9 l\u2019on parle, honte aux pays o\u00f9 l\u2019on se tait.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"panneau\">Toutes les citations qui suivent <br>sont comment\u00e9es dans nos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\">Chroniques.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La d\u00e9mocratie, c\u2019est d\u2019abord un \u00e9tat d\u2019esprit.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2890\" class=\"cit-num\">2890<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Pierre <span class=\"caps\">MEND\u00c8S<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">FRANCE<\/span>, <em>La R\u00e9publique moderne<\/em> (1962)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du Conseil en 1954, il refuse de jouer le jeu du syst\u00e8me et prend \u00ab\u00a0des hommes de caract\u00e8re, de volont\u00e9 et de foi\u00a0\u00bb dans divers partis. Mend\u00e8s reste une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence politique, bien au-del\u00e0 de la gauche.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La d\u00e9mocratie s\u2019arr\u00eate l\u00e0 o\u00f9 commence la raison d\u2019\u00c9tat.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"3272\" class=\"cit-num\">3272<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Charles <span class=\"caps\">PASQUA<\/span>, ministre de l\u2019Int\u00e9rieur, d\u00e9claration \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision en 1987<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Il justifie les \u00ab\u00a0lois Pasqua\u00a0\u00bb, suite aux <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/attentat\">attentats<\/a> terroristes. Les gaullistes applaudissent, la gauche d\u00e9nonce une politique liberticide. La phrase fait toujours d\u00e9bat et c\u2019est bon signe\u00a0! La question ne se pose m\u00eame pas, dans un r\u00e9gime autoritaire\u00a0: la raison d\u2019\u00c9tat a tous les droits.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019alternance est l\u2019oxyg\u00e8ne de la d\u00e9mocratie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"3276\" class=\"cit-num\">3276<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/mitterrand\">Fran\u00e7ois <span class=\"caps\">MITTERRAND<\/span><\/a>, \u00ab\u00a0Nos ann\u00e9es 80\u00a0\u00bb, <em>Paris Match<\/em>, 30\u00a0novembre 1989<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Il fait le bilan politique des \u00ab\u00a0ann\u00e9es Mitterrand\u00a0\u00bb et parle en connaissance de cause\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai eu \u00e0 g\u00e9rer trois alternances en sept ans\u00a0: 1981, 1986, 1988. Tout compte fait, cela s\u2019est plut\u00f4t bien pass\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le contact humain est le v\u00e9hicule essentiel de la d\u00e9mocratie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"3323\" class=\"cit-num\">3323<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/chirac\">Jacques <span class=\"caps\">CHIRAC<\/span><\/a>, Conf\u00e9rence de presse \u00e0 Rio de Janeiro, 29\u00a0juin 1999<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Comme de Gaulle, il adore les bains de foule. Cette d\u00e9mocratie directe et populaire a d\u00fb affoler le service d\u2019ordre. C\u2019est miracle s\u2019il n\u2019y a pas eu plus d\u2019accident. Mais le courage est une vertu politique.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0La fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 \u00e0 ses convictions est n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"3370\" class=\"cit-num\">3370<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Jean-Pierre <span class=\"caps\">CHEV\u00c8NEMENT<\/span>, d\u00e9put\u00e9-maire de Belfort, <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>, 1er\u00a0avril 2002<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Le Che\u00a0\u00bb fait bande \u00e0 part, comme souvent, donc liste \u00e0 part aux \u00e9lections. M\u00eame r\u00e9flexe que celui du ministre, trois fois <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/demission-et-abdication\">d\u00e9missionnaire<\/a> (un record). C\u2019est aussi une forme de courage politique assez rare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 D\u00e9fendre la d\u00e9mocratie, tenter de la d\u00e9finir, donner les conditions de son fonctionnement&#8230; autant de r\u00e9flexions citoyennes emprunt\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019Histoire en citations. Pens\u00e9es sign\u00e9es d\u2019auteurs tr\u00e8s divers et \u00e0 m\u00e9diter en ce printemps 2017, quel que soit le parti auquel on appartient ou l\u2019orientation politique dont on se sent proche.\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Tant qu&#8217;il y aura [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1835],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-cinquieme-republique-citation-du-jour-jean-rostand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}