Otto von Bismarck
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election."
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"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election."
"لا يكذب الناس قدر كذبهم بعد صيد، أو في حرب، أو قبل انتخابات."
Otto von Bismarck
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it"
Otto von Bismarck
"Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872"
Otto von Bismarck
"Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning."
Otto von Bismarck
"Hounds follow those who feed them."
Otto von Bismarck
"man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer"
Otto von Bismarck
"Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history."
Otto von Bismarck
"Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience."
Otto von Bismarck
"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt."
Otto von Bismarck
"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
Otto von Bismarck
"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best"
Otto von Bismarck
"[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world."
Otto von Bismarck
"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
Otto von Bismarck
"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
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
Otto von Bismarck
"the main thing is to make history not to write it"
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
"It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong."
Otto von Bismarck
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