Quote

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Edmund Burke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Sentiments
Manners
Opinions
Revolution
Opinion
Moral
Important
Revolutions

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
Image
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
Image
The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke
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 fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
Edmund Burke
Image
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Image
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
Edmund Burke
Image
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
Edmund Burke
Image
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
Image
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.
Edmund Burke
Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Edmund Burke
Image
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
Edmund Burke
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 all perfection.
Edmund Burke
Image
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund Burke
Image
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
Image
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
Edmund Burke
Image
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
Edmund Burke
Image
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
Edmund Burke