Edmund Burke Quotes

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.