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Edmund Burke bol írsky filozof, štátnik a teoretik politiky, zakladateľ intelektuálneho konzervativizmu, nazývaný aj otec konzervativizmu.

✵ 12. január 1729 – 9. júl 1797  •  Ďalšie mená Эдмунд Берк, ਐਡਮੰਡ ਬਰਕੀ
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Edmund Burke najznámejšie citáty

„Kto nepozná históriu, je odsúdený na jej opakovanie.“

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„Žena nebola stvorená pre to, aby ju každý obdivoval, ale preto, aby urobila šťastným jedného muža.“

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„Ale čo je sloboda bez múdrosti a bez cnosti? Je to to najväčšie zlo zo všetkých možných, lebo je to bláznovstvo, neresť a šialenstvo bez výchovy a obmedzení.“

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„Na to, aby zlo zvíťazilo, stačí málo: aby dobrí ľudia nerobili nič.“

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Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: EXLEY, HELEN: Večné hodnoty. Bratislava: Slovart, 2005. ISBN 80-8085-025-9

Edmund Burke Citáty o ľuďoch

„Ak má vyhrať zlo, potrebuje už len jedno - aby slušní ľudia nerobili nič.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Podstata konzervativizmu spočíva v zachovávaní mravných tradícií ľudstva.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Vytvoriť vládu si nevyžaduje veľkú múdrosť. Treba len ustanoviť sídlo moci, naučiť ľudí poslušnosti a práca je hotová. Poskytnúť ľuďom slobodu je ešte ľahšie. Nikoho netreba usmerňovať, stačí popustiť uzdu. Avšak vytvoriť slobodný režim, konzistentne zladiť navzájom protichodné prvky slobody a obmedzenia, to si vyžaduje veľa hlbokého premýšľania.“

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„Keď sa zlí ľudia spoja, dobrí sa musia združiť; ináč padnú jeden za druhým ako neľutovaná obeť v opovrhnutiahodnom zápase.“

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„Najdrahocennejší kov je práca. Ulievajú sa z nej ľudia.“

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Edmund Burke citáty a výroky

„Demokracia sa ľahko môže stať vládou darebákov.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Nikdy nemôžete plánovať budúcnosť podľa minulosti.“

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„Otrok spokojný so svojím osudom je dvojnásobným otrokom, lebo v otroctve je nielen jeho telo, ale aj jeho duša.“

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„Pokrytectvo si môže dovoliť dávať veľkolepé sľuby + keďže nikdy nehodlá prekročiť hranice, nič ho to nestojí.“

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„Úlohou štátu je oprašovať a opravovať odveký poriadok.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Jediná sloboda, o ktorú mi ide, je spojená s poriadkom, nie však len sloboda existujúca s poriadkom a cnosťou, ale sloboda, ktorá nemôže existovať bez nej.“

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„Podľa môjho názoru, vždy, keď sa urobí oddelenie slobody a spravodlivosti, ani jedna z nich nie je v bezpečí.“

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„Cieľom zmien je ešte lepšie uchovať pôvodný poriadok.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Všetka vláda, vlastne všetok ľudský prospech a pôžitok, každá cnosť a každý rozvážny skutok sa zakladá na kompromise a vzájomných ústupkoch.“

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„Žiadna vášeň nepripraví myseľ tak účinne o všetku jej schopnosť konať a uvažovať ako strach.“

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„Čítať bez rozmýšľania, je, ako jesť bez trávenia.“

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„Naša trpezlivosť dosiahne viac ako naša sila.“

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„Nič nie je pre náboženstvo natoľko osudné, ako ľahostajnosť.“

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„Nikdy nezúfaj, ale keď pracuješ, pracuj zúfalo!“

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„Pretože dotieravé cvrlikanie pol tucta lúčnych kobyliek pod papradím znie celým poľom, nepredstavujte si, že tí, ktorí robia hluk, sú jedinými obyvateľmi poľa.“

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Edmund Burke: Citáty v angličtine

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

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Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
1760s

“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”

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Zdroj: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 334
Zdroj: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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

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Edmund Burke kniha An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Zdroj: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 460

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”

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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

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Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
1780s

“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”

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Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“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.”

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Zdroj: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”

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Zdroj: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. 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 to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and the invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those, who by an obligation above them, and infinitely superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion, and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy. This necessity is no exception to the rule; because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and physical disposition of things, to which man must be obedient by consent or force: but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the law is broken, nature is disobeyed, and the rebellious are outlawed, cast forth, and exiled, from this world of reason, and order, and peace, and virtue, and fruitful penitence, into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.”

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Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
1790s

“The wisdom of our ancestors.”

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Burke is credited by some with the first use of this phrase, in Observations on a Late Publication on Present State of the Nation (1769), p. 516; also in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) and Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill (1793)
1760s

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“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. Political reason is a computing principle: adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”

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Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.”

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Letter to Charles James Fox (8 October 1777)
1770s

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”

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Edmund Burke kniha An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Zdroj: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 440

“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“France has always more or less influenced manners in England; and when your fountain is choked up and polluted, the stream will not run long, or not run clear, with us, or perhaps with any nation. This gives all Europe, in my opinion, but too close and connected a concern in what is done in France. Excuse me, therefore, if I have dwelt too long on the atrocious spectacle of the 6th of October, 1789, or have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind on occasion of the most important of all revolutions, which may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions.”

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Edmund Burke kniha Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”

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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.”

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Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”

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Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834)
1770s

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