On the record
But when religion is embodied into faction, and factions have objects to pursue, it will and must, more or less, become a question of power between them.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But when religion is embodied into faction, and factions have objects to pursue, it will and must, more or less, become…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke discusses how religion can become a source of power struggles when it is organized into factions.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
Jan 1, 1790
All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…
Jan 1, 1790
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Jan 1, 1790
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Other voices in this conversation
