Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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
Law
Better
Made
Sausages
Sausage
Laws
Knowing
More quotes by Otto von Bismarck
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Otto von Bismarck
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History
Otto von Bismarck
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Otto von Bismarck
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
Otto von Bismarck
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
Otto von Bismarck
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Otto von Bismarck
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto von Bismarck
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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
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
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
Otto von Bismarck
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
Otto von Bismarck
The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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
