150 Quotes by 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.

They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.