Edmund Burke — Philosophical Quotes

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.”

Perfect Opposites Ugly

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”

Ends Prejudice Grove

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Philosophical

“That cardinal virtue, temperance.”

Virtue Temperance Cardinals

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Philosophical

“Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.”

Weakness Produce

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Philosophical

“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”

Power Sublime

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Philosophical

“Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.”

Men Age Casting

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Philosophical

“The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.”

Men Pride Advice

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Philosophical

“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.”

Thinking Men Frustration

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Philosophical

“In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.”

People Energy Expression

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Philosophical

“Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.”

Men Ideas Teaching

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Philosophical

“Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.”

People Men Sweet

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Philosophical

“In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.”

Art Summer Army

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