George Curzon citáty

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1. markýz Curzon byl britský státník a diplomat, na přelomu 19. a 20. století uznávaný odborník na problematiku kolonií a mezinárodních vztahů. Byl místokrálem v Indii a britským ministrem zahraničí , jako přední politik Konzervativní strany byl v roce 1924 kandidátem na premiéra. Během své dlouholeté kariéry ve státních službách byl povýšen na hraběte a markýze , byl též rytířem Podvazkového řádu. Jeho zetěm byl fašistický politik Oswald Mosley. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. leden 1859 – 20. březen 1925
George Curzon foto
George Curzon: 22   citátů 0   lajků

George Curzon citáty a výroky

George Curzon: Citáty anglicky

“We may also, I think, congratulate ourselves on the part that the British Empire has played in this struggle, and on the position which it fills at the close. Among the many miscalculations of the enemy was the profound conviction, not only that we had a "contemptible little Army," but that we were a doomed and decadent nation. The trident was to be struck from our palsied grasp, the Empire was to crumble at the first shock; a nation dedicated, as we used to be told, to pleasure-taking and the pursuit of wealth was to be deprived of the place to which it had ceased to have any right, and was to be reduced to the level of a second-class, or perhaps even of a third-class Power. It is not for us in the hour of victory to boast that these predictions have been falsified; but, at least, we may say this—that the British Flag never flew over a more powerful or a more united Empire than now; Britons never had better cause to look the world in the face; never did our voice count for more in the councils of the nations, or in determining the future destinies of mankind. That that voice may be raised in the times that now lie before us in the interests of order and liberty, that that power may be wielded to secure a settlement that shall last, that that Flag may be a token of justice to others as well as of pride to ourselves, is our united hope and prayer.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1918/nov/18/the-armistice-address-to-his-majesty in the House of Lords (18 November 1918).

“Obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”

Curzon's opinion of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 224.

“No one believes more firmly than we do that the safety and welfare of India depend on the permanence of British administration.”

Letter to Lord Minto (1907), quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 256.

“The miracle of the world…the biggest thing that the English are doing anywhere.”

On British rule in India, quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 256.

“The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed.”

King Albert I of Belgium's diary entry (7 February 1916), quoted in R. van Overstraeten (ed.), The War Diaries of Albert I King of the Belgians (1954), p. 85.

“If I had done nothing else in India I have written my name here, and the letters are a living joy.”

Letter to Mrs Curzon (4 April 1905) on his restoration of the Taj Mahal, quoted in David Gilmour, ‘ Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32680’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011, accessed 1 Feb 2014.

“I believe that the Durbar, more than any event in modern history, showed to the Indian people the path which, under the guidance of Providence, they are treading, taught the Indian Empire its unity, and impressed the world with its moral as well as material force. It will not be forgotten. The sound of the trumpets has already died away; the captains and the kings have departed; but the effect produced by this overwhelmingly display of unity and patriotism is still alive and will not perish. Everywhere it is known that upon the throne of the East is seated a power that has made of the sentiments, the aspirations, and the interests of 300 millions of Asiatics a living thing, and the units in that great aggregation have learned that in their incorporation lies their strength. As a disinterested spectator of the Durbar remarked, Not until to-day did I realise that the destinies of the East still lie, as they always have done, in the hollow of India’s hand. I think, too, that the Durbar taught the lesson not only of power but of duty. There was not an officer of Government there present, there was not a Ruling Prince nor a thoughtful spectator, who must not at one moment or other have felt that participation in so great a conception carried with it responsibility as well as pride, and that he owed something in return for whatever of dignity or security or opportunity the Empire had given him.”

Budget Speech (25 March 1903), quoted in Lord Curzon in India, Being A Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy & Governor-General of India 1898-1905 (London: Macmillan, 1906), pp. 308-309.

“[Frenchmen] are not the sort of people one would go tiger-shooting with.”

Leonard Mosley, Curzon: The End of an Epoch (London: Longmans, 1960), p. 210.

“The very epitome of snobbishness and embodiment of the exclusive hereditary principle.”

A. D. Harvey, Collision of Empires. Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945 (London: Phoenix, 1994), p. 460.
About Curzon

“The symbol of Empire in its noon-tide splendour.”

Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 5.
About Curzon

“Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with—pompous, dictatorial and outrageously conceited…. Really he is an intolerable person, pig-headed, pompous and vindictive too! Yet an able, strong man with it all.”

Maurice Hankey's diary entry (12 May 1916), quoted in Stephen Roskill, Hankey, Man of Secrets: Volume I 1877-1919 (London: Collins, 1970), pp. 271-272.
About Curzon

“Powerful empires existed and flourished here (in India) while Englishmen were still wandering, painted, in the woods, and while the British Colonies were still a wilderness and a jungle. India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, and the religion of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.”

Lord Curzon, while Viceroy of India, in his address at the Great Delhi Durbar in 1901. Quoted from Stephen Knapp, Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire https://stephenknapp.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/a-look-at-india-from-the-views-of-other-scholars/

“The obstacle has been Mackenzie King, the Canadian, who is both obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”

Zdroj: Letter to his wife during the 1923 Imperial Conference (8 November 1923), quoted in Terry Reardon, Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different (2012), pp. 52-53

Podobní autoři

Džaváharlál Néhrú foto
Džaváharlál Néhrú 9
indický právník, státník a spisovatel, první premiér Indie
Mahátma Gándhí foto
Mahátma Gándhí 80
indický politik
Hazrat Inayat Khan foto
Hazrat Inayat Khan 5
indický Súfí
Osho foto
Osho 106
indický mystik
Paramahansa Jógánanda foto
Paramahansa Jógánanda 1
indický filozof a jogín
Indíra Gándhí foto
Indíra Gándhí 5
indická politička a premiérka
Amartya Sen foto
Amartya Sen 1
indický ekonom
Satja Sáí Bába foto
Satja Sáí Bába 1
indický guru
John Maynard Keynes foto
John Maynard Keynes 5
britský ekonom, tvůrce keynesiánství
Jiddu Krišnamurtí foto
Jiddu Krišnamurtí 17
indický duchovní filozof