The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
-
-
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKE -
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE -
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
EDMUND BURKE -
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE -
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE -
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND 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 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 BURKE -
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE -
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 BURKE -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE -
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE -
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE -
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKE