Edmund Burke Quotes

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Me
  • Tough
  • Products

• I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Hope

• Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Sleep

• I just spent the last 8 months working on the second edition of 'Mastering Bitcoin,' and I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the innovation that is happening in BTC.

  

  Andreas Antonopoulos
  • Innovation

• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Process

• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Business
  • Alone

• I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Way
  • Apartment
  • Basement

• Perfection itself is imperfection.

  

  Vladimir Horowitz
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection
  • Pianist

• Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Marriage
  • Corrupted
  • Cohabitation

• Man makes god in his own image.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Man
  • Image

• Hope is the raw material of losers.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Hope
  • Material
  • Losers

• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • God
  • Family
  • Home

• I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Chance
  • Needs
  • Mercy

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Tyranny
  • Multitude