Edmund Burke Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

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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

• Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

• Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

  Edmund Burke

  Character, Civilization, Mind

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Society, Aristocracy

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205

• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Society, Liberty, Appetite

  Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

• Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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