Manners Quotes by Edmund Burke

8 Manners quotes by Edmund Burke

Burke’s brief remarks on manners echo an emphasis on order and respect. These eight lines provide a succinct window into his political and social thought.

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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,…

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Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine…

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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us…

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The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these…

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It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency…

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There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth…

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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended…

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“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

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

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“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the…

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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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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…

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By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

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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…

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