Edmund Burke Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

• The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

  Edmund Burke

  Fate, Men, Evil

• Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Believe, Men

  "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

• All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Evil, Half

  Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Hands

• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Nurse, Evil, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

• A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

  Edmund Burke

  Practice, Evil, May

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.449

• Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Evil, Vices

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.484

• Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Anticipation

  "Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace".

• Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Enemy, Good And Evil

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

• Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Men, Names

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.267

• Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Calling, Reformation

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated: Being a Reprint of [his] Essay, "A Vindication of Natural Society": with Notes and an Appendix”, p.35

• Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Evil, Vices, Half

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

• To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

  Edmund Burke

  Responsibility, Power, Agreement

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