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Edmund Burke Quotes
«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.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Justice,
Politics
| Keywords:
civil, Civil society, departure, departures, eminent, No Policy, policy, suspicion
«Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
afford, costs, hypocrisy, intending, magnificent, promises
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
guise, mistaken, persecution, piety, religious persecution, shield, zealous
«He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
antagonist, antagonists, helper, nerves, sharpening, sharpens, skill, strengthens, wrestled, wrestles
«The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Curiosity,
Emotion
| Keywords:
human mind, simplest
«There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.»
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
declaratory, original, properly, properly speaking, speaking, substance
«It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.»
«The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
manners, revolution, revolutions, sentiments