Vices Quotes by Edmund Burke

11 Vices quotes by Edmund Burke

If you’re curious how an 18th‑century statesman dissected moral failings, this brief set offers a clear window into his take on human weakness.

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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

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

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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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

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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

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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…

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

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

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Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

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Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

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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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