Modification Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modification Nature of Beauty Power Sublime
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
