“ The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | definition right |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“great exactness, others might be totally neglected or perhaps materially
injured by the over-care of a favorite member.
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 governments are their
advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good, in
compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and
evil.”
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