Edmund Burke on evil
Edmund Burke107 quotes“All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.”
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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.
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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 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
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Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SocratesSocrates We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.
Larry PageLarry Page It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.