Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
