Quotes by Edmund Burke with evil

Edmund Burke

English politician and philosopher

Lived from: 1729 - 1797

Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: United Kingdom

Born: 12 january 1729 Died: 9 july 1797

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• All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

  ― Edmund Burke
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• And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

  ― Edmund Burke
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• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

  ― Edmund Burke
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• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  ― Edmund Burke
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Subjects in these quotes:

• government
• inveterate
• incurable
• confounds
• looked
• causes

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