Quote by

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
– Edmund Burke

Related Quotes:

  1. No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands. – Suzy Kassem
  2. We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  3. The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference. – Edmund Burke
  4. No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
  5. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. – Edmund Burke
  6. Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke
  7. The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke – Barbara W Tuchman
  8. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke
  9. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. – Edmund Burke
  10. The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. – Edmund Burke
  11. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke
  12. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. – Edmund Burke
  13. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.- (Edmund Burke) – Zack Love
  14. Society is indeed a contract … it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. – Edmund Burke
  15. Society is indeed a contract. … It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. – Edmund Burke
  16. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke
  17. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
  18. All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing – Edmund Burke
  19. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke
  20. Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke
  21. A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. – Edmund Burke
  22. A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown. – Victor Hugo
  23. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel. – Billy Graham
  24. And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life. – Robert Jackson Bennett
  25. You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it. – Charles Manson
  26. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  27. I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that’d make you want to hurl. – Mark Lawrence
  28. Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth. – JAdam Snyder
  29. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. – Ludwig van Beethoven
  30. Rejecting God’s truth b/c of mankind’s hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind’s incompetence. – Orrin Woodward
  31. Mankind’s biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind’s second, infallible. – MT Dismuke
  32. The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind. – Richard Llewellyn
  33. If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed. – Sharon Shinn
  34. Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  35. There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder. – Thomas Burnett Swann
  36. Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  37. You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. – Ernest Hemingway
  38. Christmas ought to be brought up to date,- Maria said. -œIt ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. – John Masefield
  39. I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
  40. We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson

More Quotes

, , , , , , ,