Author: Otto von Bismarck

Quotes

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

- Otto von Bismarck

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

- Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

- Otto von Bismarck

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

- Otto von Bismarck

Politics ruins the character.

Politics ruins the character.

- Otto von Bismarck

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

- Otto von Bismarck

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

- 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.

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

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics is not an exact science.

- Otto von Bismarck

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