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

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?!”

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.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

da Tancred, or the New Crusade, 1847

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

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

“Un governo conservatore è ipocrisia organizzata.”

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.”

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

Benjamin Disraeli: Frasi in inglese

“Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.”

Origine: From the window of 10 Downing Street, after arriving from Dover (16 July 1878), quoted in 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July 1878), p. 5.

“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”

Bk. II, Ch. 13.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”

Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 71 .

“We have brought a peace, and we trust we have brought a peace with honour, and I trust that that will now be followed by the prosperity of the country.”

Origine: Speech at Dover, England after arriving from the Congress of Berlin (16 July 1878), quoted in 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July 1878), p. 5.

“There is no gambling like politics.”

Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 82.

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

This comes from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, part 1, chapter 1.
Misattributed

“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”

Origine: Remark to Lord Aberdare on being welcomed to the House of Lords (1876), cited by Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography (1993), p. 563.

“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”

Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
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“Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1859/feb/28/leave in the House of Commons (28 February 1859).
1850s

“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”

Part 5, Chapter 10.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

“The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.”

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 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 105.

“Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.”

Speech in the Guildhall, London (9 November 1866), quoted in The Times (10 November 1866), p. 9
1860s

“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”

Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870), Ch. 30.

“The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

Actually a line from Martin Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
Misattributed

“We are the children of the gods, and are never more the slaves of circumstance than when we deem ourselves their masters. What may next happen in the dazzling farce of life, the Fates only know.”

Undated letter to Rosina Bulwer Lytton, cited in Andre Maurois, Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age (1927), p. 114.
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“"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion."
"Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince.
"Sensible men never tell."”

Origine: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 81. An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621–1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it", reported in Burnet, History of my own Times, vol. i. p. 175, note (edition 1833).

“The most distinguishing feature, or, at least, one of the most distinguishing features, of the great change effected in 1832 was that those who effected it at once abolished all the franchises as ancient as those of the Baronage of England; and, while they abolished them, they offered and proposed no substitute. The discontent upon the subject of representation which afterwards more or less pervaded our society dates from that period, and that discontent, all will admit, has ceased. It was terminated by the Act of Parliamentary Reform of 1867-8. That act was founded on a confidence that the great body of the people of this country were "Conservative". I use the word in its purest and loftiest sense. I mean that the people of England, and especially the working classes of England, are proud of belonging to a great country, and wish to maintain its greatness— that they are proud of belonging to an Imperial country, and are resolved to maintain, if they can, the empire of England— that they believe, on the whole, that the greatness and the empire of England are to be attributed to the ancient institutions of this country… There are people who may be, or who at least affect to be, working men, and who, no doubt, have a certain influence with a certain portion of the metropolitan working class, who talk Jacobinism… I say with confidence that the great body of the working class of England utterly repudiate such sentiments. They have no sympathy with them. They are English to the core. They repudiate cosmopolitan principles. They adhere to national principles. They are for maintaining the greatness of the kingdom and the empire, and they are proud of being subjects of our Sovereign and members of such an Empire. Well, then, as regards the political institutions of this country, the maintenance of which is one of the chief tenets of the Tory party, so far as I can read public opinion, the feeling of the nation is in accordance with the Tory party.”

Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 8.
1870s

“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”

Book II, Chapter 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

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