“ Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | humanity ignorance |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“clubs, which are set up in all the places of public resort. In these
meetings of all sorts every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and
violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity
and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance.
Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public. Liberty
is always to be estimated perfect, as property is rendered insecure. Amidst
assassination, massacre, and confiscation, perpetrated or meditated, they”
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