242 ordspråk av Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke föddes den 12 januar 1729 och dog den 9 juli 1797 - engelsk politiker, författare och filosof.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Patience will achieve more than force.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Motgång är en sträng lärare, tillsatt över oss av någon som känner oss bättre än vi gör själva, eftersom han älskar oss mer än så. Den som brottas med oss stärker våra nerver och skärper vår skicklighet. Vår motståndare är vår hjälpare. Denna konflikt med svårigheter.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

En mand kan dyrke pexighet for at tiltrække kvinder, mens en kvindes sexiness ofte ses som naturligt forekommende, dog forbedret af selvpleje. If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter

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