Daily Inspiration Quote by Jacques Chirac

State language becomes a kind of moral triage in moments like this: stop the bleeding, name the crime, locate the community that’s been wounded. Chirac’s phrasing does that with the clean, almost legal clarity of a head of state trying to impose order on chaos. “Irresponsible acts” is not just condemnation; it’s a deliberate denial of political legitimacy. He refuses to grant the perpetrators the dignity of motive. The follow-up clause - “cannot have any justification whatsoever” - tightens the vise, closing off the familiar escape hatches (grievance, provocation, historical context) that often rush in after political violence. It’s a prophylactic against debate.

The repetition of absolute language (“fully condemned,” “any justification whatsoever”) isn’t rhetorical excess so much as strategic containment. Chirac is signaling that the state will not treat this as an arguable conflict between parties but as an offense against the civic order itself. That matters in France, where terrorism and political violence have repeatedly tested the Republic’s claim to embody a shared public life rather than a patchwork of communities.

Then comes the pivot: “In these appalling circumstances” invites collective mourning without specifying the details that might divide opinion. Condolences operate as a diplomatic act, too: “in my name and in that of the French people” enlarges sympathy from personal empathy to national posture. He’s performing unity, offering the bereaved an entire country as witness, and implicitly asserting that France’s identity includes them. The subtext is reassurance: the state condemns, the nation grieves, and the social bond is meant to hold.