Edmund Burke Berühmte Zitate
„Menschen, die nicht auf ihre Vorfahren zurückblicken, werden auch nicht an ihre Nachwelt denken.“
Betrachtungen über die Französische Revolution
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. 2nd edition. London 1790, p. 47-48 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA247
Betrachtungen über die französische Revolution, nach dem Englischen des Herrn Burke von Friedrich von Gentz. Stuttgart und Leipzig 1836, S. 237 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=aisIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA237
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. 2nd edition. London 1790, p. 205 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA205
„Der Mensch ist seiner Beschaffenheit nach ein religiöses Tier.“
Betrachtungen über die Französische Revolution
"We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal;" - Reflections on the Revolution in France. 2nd edition. London 1790, p. 135 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA135
Zitate über Menschen von Edmund Burke
Betrachtungen über die französische Revolution, Frankfurt am Main 1967, S. 163
„Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen. - Edmund Burke“
letzter Zwischentitel im Hollywood-Film "Tränen der Sonne" (2003), imdb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314353/quotes
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - :en:Edmund Burke#Disputed
Zweifelhaft
Betrachtungen über die französische Revolution, nach dem Englischen des Herrn Burke von Friedrich von Gentz. Stuttgart und Leipzig 1836, S. 174 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=aisIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA174
"[...] homage to the institutor, and author and protector of civil society ; without which civil society man could not by any possibility arrive at the perfection of which his nature is capable, [...]" - Reflections on the Revolution in France. 2nd edition. London 1790, p. 146 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA146
Edmund Burke Zitate und Sprüche
„Ein Volk gibt niemals seine Freiheit auf, außer in irgendeiner Verblendung.“
Reden, 1784
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire 1784
„Ich kenne keine Methode, nach der man eine ganze Nation unter Anklage stellen kann.“
Reden, 1775
"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." - On Conciliation with America. House of Commons, March 22, 1775
Betrachtungen über die Französische Revolution
"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. 2nd edition. London 1790, p. 231 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA231
„Wenn die Untertanen aus Prinzip rebellieren, wird die Politik der Könige tyrannisch.“
Betrachtungen über die Französische Revolution
"Wenn Unterthanen Rebellen aus Grundsätzen seyn wollen, so werden Könige aus Staatsklugheit Tyrannen seyn." - Betrachtungen über die französische Revolution, nach dem Englischen des Herrn Burke von Friedrich von Gentz. Stuttgart und Leipzig 1836, S. 142 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=aisIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA142
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. p. 116 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=Vn0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=tyrants
Edmund Burke: Zitate auf Englisch
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
1760s
Quelle: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
Volume iii, p. 334
Quelle: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Quelle: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 460
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
1780s
Quelle: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”
Quelle: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
1790s
“The wisdom of our ancestors.”
Burke is credited by some with the first use of this phrase, in Observations on a Late Publication on Present State of the Nation (1769), p. 516; also in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) and Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill (1793)
1760s
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Quelle: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 440
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834)
1770s
