Edmund Burke Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

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  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  Edmund Burke

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Military, Eye

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

• Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Weakness, Doe

• Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

  Edmund Burke

  Weakness, Produce, Delusion

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.313

• The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weakness, Weak

• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weakness, Concessions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.

  Edmund Burke

  Interesting, Ancestry, Weakness

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.51, CUP Archive

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