On the record
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke emphasizes the need for a controlling power in society to maintain order.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
Jan 1, 1790
But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…
Jan 1, 1790
They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.
Other voices in this conversation
