![]() ![]() ![]() So we selected forty-three of Burke’s sharpest quotes to show you that today’s malefactors weren’t inspired by the thinking of Karl Marx or some such figure or dogma. There’s something in human nature that makes radicalism seem desirable-no matter the time, place, or culture.īurke’s insights into radicalism and human nature are worth reading in full, but that requires time few college students have. His writings hold up well more than two hundred years later. In later works like A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791), An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), and Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795–96), Burke develops that idea further. He believed the source of those threats was embedded in human nature. Those threats were most obvious in France, but Burke had a larger view. ![]() The great liberal thinker and statesman Edmund Burke dedicated his final years to exposing and combating radicalism wildly afoot not only in France but in countries throughout Europe.īeginning with his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Burke turned all his energy to what he perceived were insidious threats to ordered liberty. ![]()
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