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Letter "E" » Edmund Burke Quotes
«The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, The Abuse
«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.»
«You can never plan the future by the past.»
«Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Art,
Poetry
| Keywords:
lending, shadows, substantiating
«Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.»
«But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
Virtue,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
evils, folly, in restraint, madness, restraint, tuition, vice
«Our patience will achieve more than our force.»
«Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.»
«Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Men,
Religion
| Keywords:
essentially, finished, remade, remakes, remaking, theory of
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