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Society Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
- 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…
- Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all…
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there…
- To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)…
- The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
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