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
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 117
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Speech on the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (7 March 1773)
1770s
Quelle: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 442
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 128
/ 1790s
Volume iii, p. 344
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Quelle: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 442
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
“I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.”
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.”
15 February 1788
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.”
Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)
“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)
Volume iii, p. 497
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
Part I Section I
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
“The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Burke's description of poetry, quoted from his conversation in Prior's Life of Burke
Undated
The reference is to Charles Townshend (1725–1767)
First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)
Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 115
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 206
1770s
