Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
Politician
Statesman
Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
States
Treaties
Come
Binding
Great
Cease
Survival
Conflict
Struggle
Existence
Reality
More quotes by Otto von Bismarck
Laws are like medicine they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Otto von Bismarck
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto von Bismarck
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
Otto von Bismarck
The luxury of one's own opinion.
Otto von Bismarck
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
Otto von Bismarck
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Otto von Bismarck
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Otto von Bismarck
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
Otto von Bismarck
In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Otto von Bismarck
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
Otto von Bismarck
There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.
Otto von Bismarck
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
Otto von Bismarck
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Otto von Bismarck
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
Otto von Bismarck
