Character Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Gentle Humane Mind Power Psychology Virtue
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence. — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always. — Frederick Lenz 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
