Edmund Burke Quotes about Mankind

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Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Church, One Day, Mankind

Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Edmund Burke

Views, Excellence, Mankind

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.102