We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.


Clem Burke

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Parody is homage gone sour.
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We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
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God doesn't punish us.
We do that all by ourselves.
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We went out and measured ourselves.
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This is so bizarre. It's beyond parody.
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To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
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Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
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EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
MICHAEL BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE