“ Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | moderation virtue |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“hitherto ever commended under any of their false colors, yet in these false
colors an homage was paid by despotism to justice. The power which was
above all fear and all remorse was not set above all shame. Whilst shame
keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart, nor will
moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
I believe every honest man sympathizes in his reflections with our
political poet on that occasion, and will pray to avert the omen whenever
these acts of rapacious despotism present themselves to his view or his”
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