Quotes by Edmund Burke

“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice”

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”

“Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu”

“That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth”

“Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.”

“I dont like food thats too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture Id buy a painting.”

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”

“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned”

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”

“Adversity exasperates fools, rejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.”

“Control your emotion or it will control you”

“Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.”

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1794)]