quotes about Bismarck

last updated: November 28, 2023

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
-- Albert J. Nock

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In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
-- Kelly Miller

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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“I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.”

Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.400, Open Road Media
“Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.”
“I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.”

Source : "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
“TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.”
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
“I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.”

Source : "Donna Murphy Exclusive Interview TANGLED" by Bill Graham, collider.com. November 25, 2010.
“Being completely in control is a fantasy.”
“Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game”