Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard