Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.