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«All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
All That, do-nothing, evil, necessaries, necessary, the Triumphs, triumph, triumphed, triumphing
«All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
do-nothing, forces, Forces of Evil
«No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Passion
| Keywords:
effectually, reasoning, robs
«Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.»
«Education is the cheap defense of nations»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
cheap, defense, nations
«In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
citizens, cruel, exercising, minority, oppressions
«The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing»
«Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.»
«Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little»
«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. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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be born, contract, contracted, contracting, dead end, Dead Ends, generations, obtained, partnership, partnerships
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