Томас Бабингтон Маколей цитаты

„Делать деньги без рекламы может только монетный двор.“

„Хитрые люди презирают учение, простые преклоняются перед ним, мудрые пользуются им.“

„Слова, ещё слова, и только слова: это всё, что нам оставили самые знаменитые философы.“

„В наше время многие политики имеют обыкновение с апломбом рассуждать о том, будто народ не заслуживает свободы до тех пор, пока не научится ею пользоваться. Это умозаключение сделало бы честь глупцу из старой сказки, который решил не идти в воду, пока не научится плавать.“

„Во флоте Чарльза Второго были джентльмены, были и моряки. Но моряки не были джентльменами и джентльмены были не моряками.“

„Законы тщетно существуют для тех, кто не имеет мужества и средств защищать их.“

„Философия, которая борется с алчностью, гораздо лучше философии, которая разрабатывает законы об охране собственности.“

„Тот, кто хорошо осведомлен о прошлом, никогда не станет отчаиваться по поводу настоящего.“

„По мнению Платона, человек создан для философии, по мнению Бэкона — философия для человека.“

„Анализ — не дело поэта. Его призвание — воспроизводить, а не расчленять.“

„Больше всего публика превозносит того, кто является одновременно объектом восхищения, уважения и сострадания.“

„Хорошее правительство — не то, которое хочет сделать людей счастливыми, а то, которое знает, как этого добиться.“

„Вознаграждению и наказанию подвластно всё в этом мире. Всё, кроме сердца.“

„Некоторые книги следует только отведать, другие — проглотить и только немногие — пережевать и переварить.“

„Если рабы будут ждать свободы до тех пор, пока они не поумнеют, ждать придется долго.“

„Поэзия требует не испытующего, а верующего образа мыслей.“

„В любую эпоху самых злостных представителей рода человеческого следует искать среди народных вождей.“

„Оценка нами кого-либо во многом зависит от того, как это лицо относится к нашим интересам и страстям.“

„Могу сказать вполне искренне, – что никогда не считал себя столь счастливым, как теперь. Наконец я свободен и независим. Наконец я пользуюсь досугом для
литературных занятий и вместе с тем не обязан трудиться ради денег. Если бы мне пришлось избирать какой-либо образ жизни, я остановился бы именно на том, который выпал мне на долю в настоящее время.“

“Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.”

“Then none was for a party,
Then all were for the state;
Then the rich man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great;
Then lands were fairly portioned,
Then spoils were fairly sold;
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old”

“With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.”

“He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.”

“I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.”

“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.”

“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.”

“Was none who would be foremost
To lead such dire attack;
But those behind cried, "Forward!"
And those before cried, "Back!"”

“She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.”

“The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.”

“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”

“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”

“Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English. It has a character of its own,—a character which has taken a tinge from the sentiments of the chivalrous ages, and which accords with the peculiarities of our manners and of our insular situation. It has a language, too, of its own, and a language singularly idiomatic, full of meaning to ourselves, scarcely intelligible to strangers.”

“Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.”

“I would not give up the keys to the granary, because I know that, by doing so, I should turn scarcity into a famine.”

“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.”

“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”

“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”

“That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.”

“It would be, on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were well governed and independent of us, than ill governed and subject to us; that they were ruled by their own kings, but wearing our broadcloth, and working with our cutlery, than that they were performing their salams to English collectors and English magistrates, but were too ignorant to value, or too poor to buy, English manufactures. To trade with civilised men is infinitely more profitable than to govern savages.”

“There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.”

“Intoxicated with animosity.”

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in the country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”

“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

“Lars Porsena of Closium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.”

“Reform, that we may preserve.”