Edmund Burke Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

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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

• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Injustice, Ministers, Fraud

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

• A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Order, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

• In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Hands, Style

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.435

• I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

  Edmund Burke

  Victory, Wish, Noble

  Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Pawns, Injustice

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.82

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