6 Edmund Burke Quotes on Human nature

Edmund Burke quotes on human nature

22. Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.

25. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.

34. Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

50. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

119. Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

161. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.