Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burkewas an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliamentfor many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 January 1729
CountryIreland
wise encouragement good-man
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
kings people flattery
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
men ideas mind
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
mankind concern
Futurity is the great concern of mankind.
mean civilization two
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
men humanity causes
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
humility humanity humiliation
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
men mind littles
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
men animal cooks
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
sublime infinity source
One source of the sublime is infinity.
success selfish men
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
thinking superstitions should
You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.
sympathy men suffering
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
reality skills way
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.