Edmund Burke Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Lying, Views

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.154

• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  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.230

• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  Edmund Burke

  Spring, Liars, Lying

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

• There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Understanding, Doe

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