Bismarck Quote by Theodor Herzl

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount…

— Conrad Veidt

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the…

— Paul Johnson

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”

— Henry Kissinger

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff…

— Anthony Eden

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

— Albert J. Nock

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at…

— Anthony Trollope

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

— Florence Nightingale

“[Otto von Bismarck] only considered the interests of his own country - always the worst offense that a statesman can commit in the eyes…

— A.J.P. Taylor

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is…

— Alfred Rosenberg

How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a…

— Margaret MacMillan

“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,…

— Adam Hochschild

“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends…

— Rhoda Janzen