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> [“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,” Burke writes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/justice-is-itself-the-great-standing-policy-of-civil-society-and-any-2/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

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> [“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all the appearance imaginable of justice and good order; and very many persons, without any sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/the-idea-of-forcing-every-thing-to-an-artificial-equality-has/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

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## More by Yuval Levin

> [“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/on-the-scheme-of-this-barbarous-philosophy-burke-wrote-in-the/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/kings-will-be-tyrants-from-policy-when-subjects-are-rebels-from/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/what-is-remarkable-in-burke-s-first-performance-wrote-his-great/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were bodies of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/burke-argued-that-political-parties-were-not-as-many-people-insisted/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/justice-is-itself-the-great-standing-policy-of-civil-society-and-any-2/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/believe-me-sir-he-writes-in-the-reflections-those-who-attempt-to/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a savage and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/burke-was-not-a-sentimentalist-however-43-leave-a-man-to-his-passions/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/men-little-think-how-immorally-they-act-in-rashly-meddling-with-what/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/the-idea-of-forcing-every-thing-to-an-artificial-equality-has/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [ “\[T\]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/t-heories-inevitably-can-t-be-as-complex-as-life-itself/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme centralization. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/the-middle-layers-of-society-where-people-see-each-other-face-to-face/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/the-experience-of-seeing-differences-of-dogma-made-moot-in-practice/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/the-government-of-human-beings-he-argued-is-a-matter-not-of-applying/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

> [“Indeed, Burke argues that change, understood in this way as “a principle of growth,” is not only permissible but essential, and essential precisely to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-levin/indeed-burke-argues-that-change-understood-in-this-way-as-a-principle/)

[Yuval Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-levin/)

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