There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEAll 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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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.
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