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Edmund Burke QUOTES

Edmund Burke QUOTES

1 " Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. "

― Edmund Burke

2 " But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths. "

― Edmund Burke

3 " Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

― Edmund Burke

4 " Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. "

― Edmund Burke

5 " The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference. "

― Edmund Burke , A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

6 " No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. "

― Edmund Burke

7 " It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. "

― Edmund Burke , Reflections on the Revolution in France

8 " Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. "

― Edmund Burke

9 " Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. "

― Edmund Burke

10 " Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. "

― Edmund Burke

11 " The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. "

― Edmund Burke , Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3: Letters on a Regicide Peace

12 " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. "

― Edmund Burke , Reflections on the Revolution in France

13 " It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. "

― Edmund Burke , A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

14 " Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. "

― Edmund Burke

15 " Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. "

― Edmund Burke , Reflections on the Revolution in France

16 " If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "

― Edmund Burke

17 " All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing "

― Edmund Burke ,

18 " All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. "

― Edmund Burke

19 " Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience. "

― Edmund Burke , A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

20 " If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on. "

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