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
Introduction On Taste
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Part I Section V
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
On the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791
Quelle: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 463
“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
No. 1
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Speech on the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (7 March 1773)
1770s
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
1780s
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.”
7 May 1789
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
"Thoughts on French Affairs" (December 1791), in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797), p. 53
1790s
No. 1, p. 172 in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A New Edition, v. VIII. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Volume iii, p. 277
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“Nothing less will content me, than whole America.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.”
On Pitt's First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342
1780s
Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons (7 May 1782)
1780s
30 May 1794
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 123
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
First known in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732), but not found in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Misattributed
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Letter to http://books.google.com/books?id=JsCV9BpMko4C&pg=PA107&dq=%22arrogance+of+age+must+submit+to+be+taught+by+youth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RoPSUs_hA83okQeTz4CQCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22arrogance%20of%20age%20must%20submit%20to%20be%20taught%20by%20youth%22&f=false Frances Burney (29 July 1782)
1780s
