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
“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”
Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792)
1790s
“So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.”
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
An account of the European Settlements in America (1757), pp. 19-20, in The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes, Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown (1839)
1750s
“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Volume iii, p. 331
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Volume iii, p. 356
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Volume iii, p. 231
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”
Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
1790s
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 116
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 261
Undated
Comment quoted by Matthew Prior in his Life of Burke
Undated
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
“That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.”
Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.”
On the Army Estimates (9 February 1790)
1790s
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780)
1780s
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), referring to a Mr. Richard Coombe.
1780s
Actually from Frederic Harrison's essay "Ruskin as Prophet", in his Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates (1899).
Misattributed
“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769), volume i, p. 273
1760s
“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”
Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780)
1780s
