Delusion Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Mischief Produce Universal Weakness
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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 perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
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