black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE

Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKE

Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
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

Greatness Justice Policy
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKE

Cheap Defense Education Nation
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKE

Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Burke Quotes