Edmund Burke on corruption
Edmund Burke107 quotes“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India.
Yogi AdityanathYogi Adityanath Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.
Yogi AdityanathYogi Adityanath The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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