Evil Edmund Quotes & Sayings

Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms. — Pete Townshend

Knowledge is power. Knowledge is what makes information valuable. For knowledge to be useful, it must be acted upon. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1834 - 1902). All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950). We must never take our freedom for granted. — Al Zelczer

Then they came out of the narrow valley and at once she saw the reason. There stood Peter and Edmund and all the rest of Aslan's army fighting desperately against the crowd of horrible creatures whom she had seen last night; only now, in the daylight, they looked even stranger and more evil and more deformed. — R.J. Palacio

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him. — Rachel Caine

Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Dean Koontz

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body. — Carl Jung

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity] — Edmund Burke

In the meantime, Mary's mother continued to stock her daughter's 'bottom drawer' which she started when Mary was only five years old. When we got engaged the 'drawer' was already well stocked but by the time we got married it was more like a well-endowed wardrobe. — John L. Fear

The lost unicorn is in our presence!! — Olivia

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief. — Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly. — Edmund Burke

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil. — Edmund Carver

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. — Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act. — Edmund Burke

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice. — Edmund Burke

The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in government are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil ... Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit ... — Edmund Burke

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. — Edmund Spenser

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil. — Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. — Edmund Burke

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited. — Ian Wilmut

To provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy ... — Edmund Randolph

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing — Edmund Burke

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief. — Sophocles

I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped. — Drew Carey

Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the Professor's mysterious old house. At first, her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Great Lion, Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell. — C.S. Lewis

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. — Edmund Burke

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing — Edmund Burke

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. — Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke) — Zack Love

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. — Edmund Burke