Edmund Burke Quotes About Confusion

• El cielo estrellado, a pesar de aparecer con tanta frecuencia a nuestra vista, nunca deja de suscitar una idea de grandeza. Esto no puede deberse a las estrellas en sí, consideradas por separado. El número es ciertamente la causa. El aparente desorden aumenta la grandeza, porque la apariencia de cuidado es muy contraria a nuestras ideas de magnificencia. Además, las estrellas se encuentran en tal confusión aparente, que en ocasiones ordinarias es imposible contarlas. Esto les da la ventaja de una especie de infinitud.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Lying, Views

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.154

• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

• Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Confusion, Mind

  William Pitt (Conde de Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Barón de Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). "Discursos célebres de Chatham, Burke y Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier", p.298

• Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Views, Government

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.75

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