Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
eye society littles
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
world this-world depends
Everything in this world depends upon will.
art truth honesty
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
preparation redress conservatism
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
smoking tobacco tombs
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
country opposites ireland
Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.
men good-man digestion
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
passion self play
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
youth young fortune
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
rights society fundamentals
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
affection appreciated lost
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
travel moments understood
Every moment is travel - if understood.
men modern natural
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
anxiety looks should
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.