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Edmund Burke argued that a society should be seen as a: ‘partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born’ (Burke [1790] quoted in Beinhocker 2006: 454). Burke points to the interests of unborn members of a society and how they need a powerful ‘voice’ to counter
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Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Seven Book 2)
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In conceiving of the state as a generational compact, de Gaulle was echoing Edmund Burke, who defined society as ‘a partnership . . . between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.’[69]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
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on m’a fait lire Réflexions sur la Révolution de France, d’Edmund Burke. Burke s’opposait à tout ce en quoi je croyais, ou c’est du moins ce que j’ai pensé. Il soutenait que le changement révolutionnaire est brutal – on ne sait jamais quel type d’effets involontaires on va déclencher –, que le pouvoir de la raison ne permet pas de comprendre la
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