Edmund Burke Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  Edmund Burke

  Flattery, Giver, Flattering

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

• Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, People, Flattery

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.37

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