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
“They talk as if England were not in Europe.”
The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall, Volume 4 https://books.google.nl/books?id=P3o9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=edmund+burke+%22as+if+england%22&source=bl&ots=5zDSB68xOn&sig=XL30Pw27VyA2LHbMQObnDITiGrM&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJjuL3sMbNAhXJrRoKHT1ABSIQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=edmund%20burke%20%22as%20if%20england%22&f=false, London, 1816, p. 86
As quoted in "Book review: Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms", in Prospect magazine (19 May 2016) http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/book-review-britains-europe-a-thousand-years-of-conflict-and-cooperation-by-brendan-simms
Undated
“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”
15 February 1788
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
“The men of England — the men, I mean of light and leading in England.”
Volume iii, p. 365
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.”
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
5 May 1789
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”
Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Referring to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Volume iii, p. 331
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
28 May 1794
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 117
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election http://books.google.com/books?id=DAAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA435&dq=%22we+are+generally+cold,+and+languid,+and+sluggish%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D4TSUuXqDYrekQe6uoH4Cw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22we%20are%20generally%20cold%2C%20and%20languid%2C%20and%20sluggish%22&f=false (6 September 1780)
1780s
“Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.”
No. 1
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.”
15 February 1788, Third Day, volume x, p. 54
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 149
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Robert Bisset, The Life of Edmund Burke. Volume II (London: G. Cawthorn, 1800), pp. 428-9
Undated
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
