A great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeRead
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Interpretation
Change is an inevitable and fundamental aspect of nature that everyone must adhere to.
Edmund Burke's quote emphasizes the necessity of accepting change as an intrinsic part of life and nature. It suggests that this law of change is the most powerful force, compelling us to adapt and grow in response to the evolving circumstances around us, underscoring that resistance to change is futile and can hinder progress.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing new opportunities.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed.
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model, they emphasize what might be lost.
Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.
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