Quote

Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

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
Reason
Puts
Human
Confusion
Humans
Leaves
Thing
Rational
Mind
Guilt
Perverts
Never
Longer
Distorts
Men
Free
Faculties
Use
Faculty

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
Image
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
Image
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
Edmund Burke
Image
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
Image
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
Edmund Burke
Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Image
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Image
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
Image
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Edmund Burke
Image
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
Image
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Edmund Burke
Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Edmund Burke
Image
To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
Image
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Edmund Burke
Image
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund Burke
Image
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
Edmund Burke
Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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