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History consists, for the gre...

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

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The hottest fires in hell are...

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Those who have been once into...

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Men are qualified for civil l...

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Silence is golden but when it...

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Religion is the basis of civi...

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

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A coward's courage is in his ...

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

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Circumspection and caution ar...

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Turn over a new leaf. ...

Turn over a new leaf.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Men are qualified for civil l...

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The essence of tyranny is the...

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Because half a dozen grasshop...

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

A great empire and little min...

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

It is the nature of tyranny a...

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

All men that are ruined, are ...

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

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Nothing in progression can re...

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Prudence is not only the firs...

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

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He only deserves to be rememb...

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The use of force alone is but...

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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In a democracy the majority o...

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....