 Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions....  Writings and Speeches - Page 324by Edmund Burke - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Michael Kramp - 2007 - 218 pages
...the dangerous potential of men's undisciplined feelings. He indicated that "society requires . . . that even in the mass and body as well as in the individuals,...controlled, and their passions brought into subjection" (111). Burke demanded the social subservience and tempered sentiment of men, and he imagined such regulation... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 2007 - 536 pages
...the people, its power derived from a power out of themelves," and that people should recognize that "the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted,...controlled, and their passions brought into subjection." In language with which Reagan strenuously disagreed, Burke insisted that the people need to understand... | |
 | A C Kapur - 1997 - 914 pages
...with their own welfare first and foremost. This is the evidence of history. "Society", Burke says, Marx, "has simplified the class well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled,... | |
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