Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about Passion

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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Benjamin Disraeli

War, Passion, Independence

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Self, Play

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Government, Order

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wise, Wisdom, Passion

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Men, Imagination

'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Men, Conquer The World

Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

Encouragement, Passion, Garden

Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.334

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli

Money, Passion, Ambition

Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.340

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fashion, Passion, Men

Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.223, London : H. Colburn

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Benjamin Disraeli

Passion, Mankind

Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.12