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 DISRAELIHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
-
-
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
In politics nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI