“ Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | passion body |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by
this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil
society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires
not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that
even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations
of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their
passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of
themselves, and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will
and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this
sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned”
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