Frasi di Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli, I conte di Beaconsfield , è stato un politico e scrittore britannico. Ha fatto parte del Partito Conservatore ed è stato Primo ministro del Regno Unito due volte: dal 27 febbraio al 3 dicembre 1868 e dal 20 febbraio 1874 al 23 aprile 1880.

Pur distinguendosi per essere uno dei principali protezionisti del partito conservatore dopo il 1844, le relazioni di Disraeli con altre importanti figure del suo partito, in particolare con lord Derby, furono il frutto particolare che lo portò a tanta fama. Dal 1852, inoltre, la carriera di Disraeli venne contraddistinta dalla sua marcata rivalità con il liberale William Ewart Gladstone per la guida del governo. In questa faida, Disraeli venne supportato dalla sua grande amicizia con la regina Vittoria. Nel 1876 Disraeli venne elevato al rango di conte di Beaconsfield dopo quarant'anni di onorato servizio alla Camera dei Comuni.

Prima e durante la sua carriera politica, Disraeli era ben conosciuto per essere una figura sociale e letteraria di fama anche se generalmente le sue novelle non sono riconosciute come una grande opera del periodo vittoriano. Egli scrisse prevalentemente romanzi dei quali "Sybil" e "Vivian Grey" sono ancora oggi i più conosciuti. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Dicembre 1804 – 19. Aprile 1881
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Benjamin Disraeli frasi celebri

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“In realtà, noi siamo una nazione di bottegai.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 46, p. 172.

“Chi può negare che Gesù di Nazareth, il Figlio del Dio Altissimo venuto nella carne, sia l'etero vanto del popolo giudaico?!”

Benjamin Disraeli

citato in Nicola Martella, Offensiva intorno a Gesù, vol II, Punto a croce 2000

“Il mondo è governato da tutt'altri personaggi che neppure immaginano coloro il cui occhio non giunge dietro le quinte.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Citato in Curzio Nitoglia, Per padre il diavolo: un'introduzione al problema ebraico secondo la tradizione cattolica, Barbarossa, 2002, p. 208.

Benjamin Disraeli Frasi e Citazioni

“La gioventù è un agire da sciocchi, la maturità una lotta, la vecchiaia un rimpianto.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 115, p. 170.

“La delusione della maturità segue l'illusione della gioventù.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Citato in Focus n. 67, p. 169.

“Quel che è delitto fra la moltitudine è soltanto un vizio fra i pochi.”

Benjamin Disraeli

da Tancred, or the New Crusade, 1847

“Tutto è razza e non c'è altra verità.”

Benjamin Disraeli

1847, vol. I, p. 169; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 267

“Un governo conservatore è ipocrisia organizzata.”

Benjamin Disraeli

dal discorso alla Camera dei Comuni del 17 marzo 1845

“Un politico usa i dati come un ubriaco il lampione: non per la luce ma per il sostegno.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Citato in La settimana enigmistica, n. 4102, pag. 12

Benjamin Disraeli: Frasi in inglese

“We moralise among ruins.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Bk. V, Ch. 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“With words we govern men.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Part 1, Chapter 21.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“I hate definitions.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Book II, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Upon being asked to offer the young son of a member of Parliament advice, cited in Wilfrid Meynell, Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography (1903), p. 83.
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“It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the country gentlemen…appealed to me to assist you at a moment of apparently overwhelming disaster. I ultimately agreed to do so…because, from my earliest years, my sympathies had been with the landed interest of England.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Letter to Sir William Miles (11 June 1860), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), pp. 23–24

“What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Variante: 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.
Variante: Is man an ape or an angel? Now, I am on the side of the angels!
Origine: Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108

“[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Letter to Isaac Disraeli (2 September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 104

“It is vital to your Majesty's authority and power at this critical moment, that the Canal should belong to England.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Letter to Queen Victoria (18 November 1875), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 783

“There are rare instances when the sympathy of a nation approaches those tenderer feelings which are generally supposed to be peculiar to the individual, and to be the happy privilege of private life, and this is one.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Addressing the House of Commons after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1 May 1865).
1860s
Contesto: There are rare instances when the sympathy of a nation approaches those tenderer feelings which are generally supposed to be peculiar to the individual, and to be the happy privilege of private life, and this is one. Under any circumstances we should have bewailed the catastrophe at Washington; under any circumstances we should have shuddered at the means by which it was accomplished. But in the character of the victim, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent, that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy; it touches the heart of nations, and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
Whatever the various and varying opinions in this House, and in the country generally, on the policy of the late President of the United States, all must agree that in one of the severest trials which ever tested the moral qualities of man he fulfilled his duty with simplicity and strength. …When such crimes are perpetrated the public mind is apt to fall into gloom and perplexity, for it is ignorant alike of the causes and the consequences of such deeds. But it is one of our duties to reassure them under unreasoning panic and despondency. Assassination has never changed the history of the world. I will not refer to the remote past, though an accident has made the most memorable instance of antiquity at this moment fresh in the minds and memory of all around me. But even the costly sacrifice of a Caesar did not propitiate the inexorable destiny of his country.

“Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy,”

Benjamin Disraeli

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/aug/09/supply-navy-estimates in the House of Commons (9 August 1848). <br class="br">1840s <br class="br">Contesto: The hon. Gentleman has said, in a most extraordinary manner, that our security for peace at the present day is the desire of nations to keep at home. There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy, and you have at this moment the principle of race&amp;mdash; not at all of nationality&amp;mdash; adopted by Germany, the very country to which the hon. Member for the West Riding referred.

“What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this&mdash; Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.”

Benjamin Disraeli

1860s
Variante: 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.
Variant: Is man an ape or an angel? Now, I am on the side of the angels!
Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860&ndash;1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 108.

“The people of God co-operate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe! And all this because they wish to destroy that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny they can no longer endure.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1852), Chapter X http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20007/20007-h/20007-h.htm#link2HCH0010. Variations of the bolded portion of this quote have been incorrectly challenged as misattributions based on the seemingly anachronistic reference to communism (which was not yet an important political force at the time), the negative language toward Jews, and the use of such variations by antisemitic agitators who failed to provide an accurate citation to the work in which it appears. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990). <br class="br">1850s <br class="br">Contesto: But existing society has chosen to persecute this race which should furnish its choice allies, and what have been the consequences?<br>They may be traced in the last outbreak of the destructive principle in Europe. An insurrection takes place against tradition and aristocracy, against religion and property. Destruction of the Semitic principle, extirpation of the Jewish religion, whether in the Mosaic or in the Christian form, the natural equality of man and the abrogation of property, are proclaimed by the secret societies who form provisional governments, and men of Jewish race are found at the head of every one of them. The people of God co-operate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe! And all this because they wish to destroy that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny they can no longer endure.

“Success is the child of audacity.”

Benjamin Disraeli

The Rise of Iskander ch. 4 (1833).
Books

“Nothing is more disgusting, than the habit of our officers speaking always of the inhabitants of India—many of them descended from the great races—as “niggers.””

Benjamin Disraeli

It is ignorant, & brutal,—& surely most mischievous.
Origine: Letter to Lord Salisbury (13 December 1875), quoted in Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (2001), p. 224, n. 10

“Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338

“Pure air, pure water, the inspection of unhealthy habitations, the adulteration of food, these and many kindred matters may be legitimately dealt with by the Legislature... After all, the first consideration of a minister should be the health of the people.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), pp. 511-512

“And now, gentlemen, what is the condition of the great body of the people? In the first place, gentlemen, they have for centuries been in the full enjoyment of that which no other country in Europe has ever completely attained—complete rights of personal freedom.”

Benjamin Disraeli

Origine: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 507

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