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

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

Benjamin Disraeli
Passion, Knowledge, Men
"The Value of Literature to Men of Business". Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, October 23, 1844.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wise, Law, May
Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Peace, War

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli
Party, Political, Principles
Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

Benjamin Disraeli
Europe, Intellectual, Movement
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.183

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Benjamin Disraeli
Learning, People, Leader
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.389, London : D. Bryce

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli
Trust, Spring, Exercise
'Vivian Grey' (1826) bk. 6, ch. 7

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Benjamin Disraeli
Pages, Blank, New Testament

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli
Angel, Men, Apes
Benjamin Disraeli's speech at Oxford Diocesan conference, November 25, 1864.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity, Men, Thinking
Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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.

Benjamin Disraeli
Imagination, Politics, Opponents
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli
Parsimony, Brevity, Prodigals
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1860). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.360

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Benjamin Disraeli
Destiny, Fortune

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Benjamin Disraeli
Confused, Men, Keys

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

Benjamin Disraeli
World, Wheels, Rounds
Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Travel, Memorable
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship, Men, Boon
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Life, Fate
Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Alroy: A Romance”, p.81

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, Knowledge, Intelligent
"Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Peace, War, Aggravation

Duty cannot exist without faith

Benjamin Disraeli
Duty
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli
Hair, Worry, Pulse

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Benjamin Disraeli
Change, Resistance, Inexorable

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Islands, Race
Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Benjamin Disraeli
Art, Criticism, Literature
"The Sayings of Disraeli".