Edmund Burke

Quotes by Edmund Burke

 

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

George Weinberg

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

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