Quote

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Otto von Bismarck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Strong
Live
Time
Scruples
Audacity
Wondrous
Weak
Grows
Moral

More quotes by Otto von Bismarck

Image
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
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
Image
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Otto von Bismarck
Image
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
Otto von Bismarck
Image
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