Otto von Bismarck Quote Explained: Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night

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You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

- Otto von Bismarck

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Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

- Otto von Bismarck

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Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

- Otto von Bismarck

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· Germany

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

- Otto von Bismarck

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· Germany

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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

- Otto von Bismarck

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· Germany

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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

- Otto von Bismarck

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· Germany

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

- Otto von Bismarck

Statesman

· Germany

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

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

If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

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