Edmund Burke on darkness
Edmund Burke107 quotes“All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.”
More from Edmund Burke
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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 BurkeEdmund Burke
Original quotes
From our community writers
Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
Meet the writers
More on darkness
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn When it is darkest is when you must shine.
W. ShaykW. Shayk In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross And so she remained a mystery, something to dream about on rainy days staring at the dark holly clouds passing by. – in a bed of flowers.
JeroenJeroen Like fireflies in the night, she has her way of dealing with the dark. -Illumination.
JeroenJeroen Even through the darkest night, know the world is moving towards dawn.
W. ShaykW. Shayk Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie