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 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 strani
...good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less...it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.... | |
 | Wilhelm Röpke - 282 strani
...liberty and restraint in one consistent work " (Burke) ; that, to quote Burke again, " Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere." To every freedom there is a boundary beyond which it becomes a grave danger to itself and to Society... | |
 | Torbjorn L. Knutsen, Torbjørn L. Knutsen - 1997 - 370 strani
...exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without (Burke 1866, pp. 51f). This grim estimate of human capabilities is the second cornerstone of the conservative... | |
 | Derek Curtis Bok - 1998 - 502 strani
...exact proportion to their disposition to put moral claims on their own appetites . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the external constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.... | |
 | Judith Stoddart - 1998 - 220 strani
...rationalist reactions to tyranny. Absolute individual freedom was not a practicable option. "Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere," he stated, "and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."51 Self-regulating... | |
 | Chris Maser - 1999 - 436 strani
...exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.... | |
 | Kevin Tan - 1999 - 570 strani
...irresponsible exercise of constitutional rights and freedoms. Edmund Burke quipped that: Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without ... men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.190 A constitution... | |
 | Guy Story Brown - 2000 - 460 strani
...exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free,... | |
 | William Blake - 2000 - 420 strani
...was 'natural' and, in his 'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' of 1791, that Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 2000 - 104 strani
...civilization, at least in the short run. As Edmund Burke, English political philosopher, said, "Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite...it there is within, the more there must be without . . . men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." Criminality is... | |
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