Blinded Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blinded Extremes Men Misery Prosperity Wealth
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much. — Alexander Pope Q Copy Share Image
Man is never less miserable than when he appears destitute of everything. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal 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
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
I guess I was so blinded by who I wanted you to be, that I didn't see who you really were. — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
“Even If I Don’t See it Again Even if I don’t see it again.–nor ever feel it I know it is–and that if once… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
“Don't give me truth, just give me gossip And skeletons from people's closets, I wanna be normal And millions buy it, I am blinded… — Benjamin Zephaniah Copy Share Image
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When you're so down for someone, you're completely blinded to the fact that they've been no good to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The blind leading the blind are those which think they can see into the heart of another. But are blinded by love and their… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
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