“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Last update May 16, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "A canter is the cure for all evil." by Benjamin Disraeli?

Benjamin Disraeli306

British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881

Related quotes

“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

On Milton (1825)

“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.”

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal

Essays Volume II, Essay XIV: "Private Judgment" http://www.newmanreader.org/works/essays/volume2/private.html British Critic (July 1841).

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

My Religion / Light in My Darkness, Ch 6 (1927)
Context: Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere … they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

“Poison cures in certain contingencies, and in those cases poison is not an evil thing.”

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays

Le venin guerit en quelque rencontre, et, ce cas-là, le venin n'est pas mauvais.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VI.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 139.

“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.”

Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902) U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House

Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)