Quote

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

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
Critics
Skills
Rudest
Equal
Displayed
Hand
Pulling
Understanding
Destroying
Hands
Skill
Task
Tasks

More quotes by 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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke
Image
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
Image
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Image
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Edmund Burke
Image
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
Image
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Edmund Burke
Image
For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
Edmund Burke
Image
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Edmund Burke
Image
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke
Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
Edmund Burke
Image
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Image
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Image
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
Edmund Burke
Image
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
Edmund Burke
Image
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
Edmund Burke
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 can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
Edmund Burke
Image
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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