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Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's g...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK [The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and i...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the pr...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK [The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world. [Ger., Wir Deutschen furchten Gott, sonst aber...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wi...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Politics is the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics ruins the character.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or rig...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
OTTO VON BISMARCK No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and g...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCK When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak gr...
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 When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intenti...
OTTO VON BISMARCK I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right b...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCK A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
OTTO VON BISMARCK If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is the art of the possible.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
OTTO VON BISMARCK An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
OTTO VON BISMARCK All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle f...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intentio...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think har...
OTTO VON BISMARCK There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for n...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARCK All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle o...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, m...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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 hal...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, mod...
OTTO VON BISMARCK When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCK The nation that has the schools has the future
OTTO VON BISMARCK By the 1990s, advertising with celebrities had really taken off,
OTTO VON BISMARCK An honest broker.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations
OTTO VON BISMARCK Blood and iron.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Hounds follow those who feed them.
OTTO VON BISMARCK If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans
OTTO VON BISMARCK A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being
OTTO VON BISMARCK There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
OTTO VON BISMARCK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARCK When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intenti...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they q...
OTTO VON BISMARCK History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not ...
OTTO VON BISMARK Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
OTTO VON BISMARK People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
OTTO VON BISMARK I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep t...
KARL VON BONSTETTEN War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. T...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for t...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on t...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the province of danger.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the r...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in wa...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of j...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and en...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
KARL VON FRISCH Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exerci...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards r...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the e...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not wi...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...
OTTO DIX To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
OTTO LILIENTHAL The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
OTTO WEININGER The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why w...
OTTO WEININGER No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women o...
OTTO WEININGER Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every real...
OTTO WEININGER All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
OTTO WEININGER Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
OTTO WEININGER May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this ...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced b...
OTTO WALLACH Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of ...
OTTO WALLACH In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i...
OTTO WALLACH In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted am...
OTTO WALLACH One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least s...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it ap...
OTTO WALLACH As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organ...
OTTO WALLACH It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on ...
OTTO WALLACH This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be ...
OTTO SCHILY Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so ...
OTTO SCHILY It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from afflu...
OTTO SCHILY Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, t...
OTTO SCHILY And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is ...
OTTO SCHILY The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see ...
OTTO SCHILY It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people ...
OTTO SCHILY After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of brin...
OTTO SCHILY We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
OTTO SCHILY There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see wh...
OTTO SCHILY Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
OTTO SCHILY We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use mili...
OTTO SCHILY On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus sy...
OTTO SCHILY The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the p...
OTTO SCHILY On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
OTTO SCHILY Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanista...
OTTO SCHILY Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that doe...
OTTO SCHILY The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
OTTO SCHILY The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community,...
OTTO SCHILY The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmak...
OTTO SCHILY Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is re...
OTTO SCHILY This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role ...
OTTO SCHILY Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
OTTO RANK The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. ...
OTTO RANK Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
OTTO RANK Art is life's dream interpretation.
OTTO RANK The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psy...
OTTO RANK I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to...
OTTO PREMINGER I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o...
OTTO PREMINGER I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot ...
OTTO PREMINGER When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doc...
OTTO PREMINGER I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
OTTO PREMINGER Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
OTTO PREMINGER I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because...
OTTO PREMINGER When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, the...
OTTO PREMINGER Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
OTTO PREMINGER Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
OTTO PENZLER To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
OTTO PENZLER It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of whic...
OTTO PENZLER One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside th...
OTTO PENZLER Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians...
OTTO PENZLER A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't...
OTTO PENZLER Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, po...
OTTO PENZLER I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to h...
OTTO PENZLER I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and ...
OTTO PENZLER