The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Edmund BurkeThe most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund BurkeThere are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
Edmund BurkePrejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.
Edmund Burke