Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DLwas a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 July 1848
religious knowledge political
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.
independent science theory
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
men heaven age
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
kings tyranny-of-the-majority may
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
gentleman staring distress
I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.
country safety faithful
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
clarity liability
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
home government looks
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
looks scottish british
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
funny art book
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
men promise young
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
atmosphere climate belief
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
soul adequate being-there
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
talking years class
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.