On the record
To give, therefore, no more importance, in the social order, to such descriptions of men than that of so many units is a horrible usurpation.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgTo give, therefore, no more importance, in the social order, to such descriptions of men than that of so many units is a horrible usurpation.
Burke warns against reducing individuals in society to mere numbers, which he sees as a grave injustice.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?