Benjamin Disraeli: Citáty anglicky (strana 11)

“It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

"The Value of Literature to Men of Business," speech at the Manchester Athenaeum (23 October 1844), cited in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 2 (1882), p. 625.
1840s

“…reciprocity is barter. I always understood that barter was the last effort of civilization that it was exactly that state of human exchange that separated civilization from savagery; and if reciprocity is only barter, I fear that would hardly help us out of our difficulty. My noble friend read some extracts from the speeches of those who had the misfortune to be in Parliament at that time, and he honoured me by reading an extract from the speech I then made in the other House of Parliament. That was a speech in favour of reciprocity, and indicated the means by which reciprocity could be obtained. That is to say…by the negotiation of a treaty of commerce, by reciprocal exchange and the lowering of duties, the products of the two negotiating countries would find a freer access and consumption in the two countries than they formerly possessed. But when he taunts me with his quotation of some musty phrases of mine 40 years ago, I must remind him that we had elements then on which treaties of reciprocity could be negotiated. At that time, although the great changes of Sir Robert Peel had taken place, there were 168 articles in the tariff which were materials by which you could have negotiated, if that was a wise and desirable policy, commercial treaties of reciprocity. What is the number you now have in the tariff? Twenty-two. Those who talk of negotiating treaties of reciprocity…have they the materials for negotiating treaties of reciprocity? You have lost the opportunity. I do not want to enter into the argument at the present moment; but England cannot pursue that policy.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Speech in the House of Lords (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8.
1870s

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1873/mar/11/second-reading-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (11 March 1873).

“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338.

“Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 7.

“The Tory party is only in its proper position when it represents popular principles. Then it is truly irresistible. Then it can uphold the throne and the altar, the majesty of the empire, the liberty of the nation, and the rights of the multitude. There is nothing mean, petty, or exclusive, about the real character of Toryism. It necessarily depends upon enlarged sympathies and noble aspirations, because it is essentially national.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech to a Conservative dinner (26 June 1863), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 114

“There is no education like adversity.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 61.

“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Book IV, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 49.

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.
Books

“Which do you believe most likely to enter an insane convention, a body of English gentlemen honoured by the favour of their Sovereign and the confidence of their fellow-subjects, managing your affairs for five years, I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself?”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech to a banquet given to him in Knightsbridge, attacking William Gladstone for calling the Cyprus Convention an "insane covenant" (27 July 1878), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), pp. 1228-9.

“The danger at such a moment is that designing politicians may take advantage of such sublime sentiments and may apply them for the furtherance of their sinister ends. I do not think there is any language which can denounce too strongly conduct of this description. He who at such a moment would avail himself of such a commanding sentiment in order to obtain his own individual ends, suggesting a course which he may know to be injurious to the interests of the country, and not favourable to the welfare of mankind, is a man whose conduct no language can too strongly condemn. He outrages the principle of patriotism, which is the soul of free communities. He does more—he influences in the most injurious manner the common welfare of humanity. Such conduct, if it be pursued by any man at this moment, ought to be indignantly reprobated by the people of England; for, in the general havoc and ruin which it may bring about, it may, I think, be fairly described as worse than any of those Bulgarian atrocities which now occupy attention.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech to the annual meeting of the Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association in Aylesbury (20 September 1876), quoted in 'Lord Beaconsfield At Aylesbury', The Times (21 September 1876), p. 6.

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i (1839).
Books

“London is a modern Babylon.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Bk. V, Ch. 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word "news," and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication, and not news.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1855/mar/26/newspaper-stamp-duties-bill in the House of Commons (26 March 1855).
1850s

“His Christianity was muscular.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 14.

“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Part 1, Chapter 8. Compare: "La Nature a été en eux forte que l'éducation" (translated: "Nature was a stronger force in them than education"), Voltaire, Vie de Molière.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Book I, Chapter 9.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Zdroj: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/jun/05/expulsion-of-the-british-ambassador-from in the House of Commons (5 June 1848).

“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”

Help us translate this quote

Benjamin Disraeli

Part 1, Chapter 23.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)