Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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