False. The quote on the triumph of evil is misattributed to the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. The quote is possibly a paraphrase, although a definitive source has yet to be found.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.

Edmund Burke was born ... how they differ. Burke divides sensory experience into his two categories. The sublime is what makes me afraid. Fear created the first gods: “Whatever is fitted in ...

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked ...

Lewis didn’t get the quote exactly right — it’s “The only thing necessary ... The phrase is generally attributed to Edmund Burke, in a 1790 letter addressed to Captain Thomas Mercer. Some scholars ...