Evil Quotes by Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing

— Edmund Burke

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

— Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

— Edmund Burke

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

— Edmund Burke

For evil to prevail, all that good men have to do, is nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

— Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from…

— Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred…

— Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

— Edmund Burke

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

— Edmund Burke

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet…

— Edmund Burke

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.…

— Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision,…

— Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate,…

— Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they…

— Edmund Burke

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional…

— Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that…

— Edmund Burke

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the…

— Edmund Burke

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

— Edmund Burke