Quote #169
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling - it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.
More from Edmund Burke
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- It has always been with me, a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a gr…
- If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
- The sycophant - who in the pay of the English oligarchy played the romantic laudator temporis acti against the French Revolution just as, i…
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.