Edmund Burke Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Suffering, Rebel

• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Skills, Challenges

• The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Rights, Organization

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.416, Penguin

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Passion, Men

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.32

• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

• The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Men, Advice

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

• Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

  Edmund Burke

  Science, Water, Suffering

  "On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord".

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