Quote by Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscie

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke
Other Quotes from
good
category

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
good

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato

Category:
good

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it. – Adam Sandler

Category:
good

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo

Category:
good

Random Quotes

And I dont believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes. – Michael Haneke

Category:
Romantic

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. – Plato

Category:
Knowledge

No one chooses to raise children alone. – Erykah Badu

Category:
alone

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. – Robert Frost

Category:
Jobs & Office