 Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity ; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding...  The Works of Edmund Burke - 第 326 頁Edmund Burke 著 - 1839完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | David W. Orr - 2002 - 247 頁
...liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters" (Burke, quoted in epigraph to Ophuls 1992). A genuine conservatism would provide the philosophical... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2003 - 148 頁
...proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke Order and order alone definitively makes liberty: Disorder makes servitude. —Charles... | |
 | Claes G. Ryn - 2003 - 164 頁
...proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.1 Burkes argument can be applied to the possibilities of peace. The greater the ability of... | |
 | Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Jeffrey Schwartz, Annie Gottlieb - 2003 - 340 頁
...liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — EDMUND BURKE, A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1 791 May all beings' hearts rejoice.... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2003 - 292 頁
...appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. 1t is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.3"' On September 19, 1796, in his Farewell Address, President George Washington said: The name... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 頁
...civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ... in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. (Burke, Works 4: 319) To the delegate to the French National Assembly who echoes the famous complaint... | |
 | Alan Thomas Wood - 2004 - 144 頁
...liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon...intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.1 Freedom and authority The term 'democracy' derives from a combination of the Greek words... | |
 | United States. President - 1917 - 564 頁
...unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be within the more there must be without. It is ordained...cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." The great insurance companies afford striking examples of corporations whose business has extended... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - 260 頁
...of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitutions of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."21 There must exist control of will and appetite both for the individual and the government.... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - 256 頁
...proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."59 He goes on to argue "that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Yet Wollstonecraft's own desire "not to make hypocrites" is partly qualified in the second Vindication,... | |
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