Dub. 06, 2023 at 1:52 pm

Otto von Bismarck: nejslavnější citáty

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen, vévoda z Lauenburgu (1. dubna 1815, Schönhausen, Pruské království – 30. července 1898, Friedrichsruh, Německé císařství) byl jeden z nejvýznamnějších politiků 19. století a budovatel sjednoceného Německa. Byl první ministr (tj. premiér) Pruska (1862–1890) a první v řadě německých kancléřů (1871–1890). Jeho nekompromisní přístup k řešení politických problémů a autoritativní vystupování vůči sněmu mu vyneslo přezdívku Železný kancléř. V zahraniční politice pro něj byla typická tzv. reálpolitik, jež je definována chladným mocenským kalkulem a agresivní diplomacií.

Otto von Bismarck – nejslavnější citáty

Síla Ruska může být podkopána jenom jeho oddělením od Ukrajiny. Je třeba Ukrajinu nejen oddělit, ale také ji postavit proti Rusku, národ rozdělit na dvě části a pak se jenom dívat, jak bratr zabíjí bratra. Proto musíme najít a vychovat zrádce z prostředí ukrajinské nacionalistické elity a s jejich pomocí zvrátit situaci až do stadia, kdy budou Ukrajinci nenávidět vše ruské. Všechno ostatní je jen otázka času.
Rakousko má stejné právo bojovat za své zájmy jako Prusko.
Člověk je jako bicykl. Nejedete-li na něm, upadne.
Není akce, za niž by nezodpovídal nikdo.
Jednota nebude dosažena řečmi a rozhodováním většiny v parlamentě, ale krví a železem.
Kéž by bylo možno konfiskovat, co si lidé myslí.
Se zákony je to podobné jako s párky. Je lepší, když nevidíme, jak se dělají.
Žádný státník nedokáže vytvořit sám vůbec nic. Nezbývá mu než čekat a poslouchat, dokud nezaslechne, jak v pozadí za událostmi zaznějí kroky Boží. Poté musí vyskočit a chytit se lemu Božího roucha.
Žádný státník nedokáže vytvořit sám vůbec nic. Nezbývá mu než čekat a poslouchat, dokud nezaslechne, jak v pozadí za událostmi zaznějí kroky Boží. Poté musí vyskočit a chytit se lemu Božího roucha.
Co je krása ženy? Její ošklivost, přijatelná našim smyslům.
My Němci se bojíme Boha a nikoho jiného na světě.
Národ jsme my všichni.
Jeden druhému vydýcháváme vzduch, jeden musí ustoupit nebo být „ustoupen“, do té doby musíme zůstat protivníky.
Pro lásku je žena ochotna podstoupit jakékoli násilí.
Svoboda je luxus, který není pro každého.
Nejlepší obrana je útok.
Zamilovat se znamená přestat srovnávat.
Kéž by bylo možno konfiskovat, co si lidé myslí.
Kdyby se britská armáda objevila na druhé straně kanálu, vyšlu policistu, aby ji zatkl.
Milovat člověka znamená obdivovat se jeho nedostatkům.
Kdo je pánem Čech, je pánem Evropy.
Člověk není nenahraditelný, když je milován, ale jenom když miluje.
První generace vytváří, druhá je spravuje, třetí studuje dějiny umění a čtvrtá zpustne docela.
Člověk má jen jedinou lásku, ale mnohokrát miluje něco jiného.
Radikalismu se podobá rychlovlaku, z něhož nelze na každé stanici vysednout.
Absolutismus považuji za nemožnou věc.
My Němci se bojíme Boha a nikoho jiného na světě.
Jenom idiot se učí z vlastních zkušeností.
Jednota nebude dosažena řečmi a rozhodováním většiny v parlamentě, ale krví a železem.
Není akce, za niž by nezodpovídal nikdo.
V každém řečníkovi, který má na posluchače působit, musí být kus básníka.
Bylo historickým důsledkem, že po rakouské válce bude následovat francouzská

Otto von Bismarck: anglické citáty

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.
Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.
Who is master of Bohemia is master of Europe.
Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood.
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Politics is the art of the possible.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
Hit the Poles so hard that they despair of their life; I have full sympathy with their condition, but if we want to survive, we can only exterminate them; the wolf, too, cannot help having been created by God as he is, but people shoot him for it if they can.
My dear Professor, a war would have cost us at least 30,000 brave soldiers, and at best we should have gained nothing by it. Besides, anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.
The old Jew, he is the man.
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!
Let us lift Germany, so to speak, into the saddle. Surely when that is achieved, it will succeed at riding as well.
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here… is France, and we’re in the middle — that’s my map of Africa.
Politics is not an exact science.
At no time there is more lying than before the elections, during the war and after the hunt.
I ask you what right had I to close the way to the throne against these people? The kings of Prussia have never been by preference kings of the rich. Frederick the Great said when Crown Prince: “Quand je serai rot, je serai tin vrai rot des gueux.
Be assured, we shall not go to Canossa, either bodily or spiritually.
There is a special providence for drunkards, fools, and the United States of America.
„Every state must be aware that its peace, its security rests on its own sword.
In the development of our tariff I am determined to oppose any modification in the direction of Free Trade, and to use my influence in favour of greater protection and of a higher revenue from frontier duties.
Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
A statesman cannot create anything himself. He must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The interests of the state alone have guided me, and it has been a calumny when publicists, even well-meaning, have accused me of having ever advocated an aristocratic system. I have never regarded birth as a substitute for want of ability; whenever I have come forward on behalf of landed property, it has not been in the interests of proprietors of my own class, but because I see in the decline of agriculture one of the greatest dangers to our permanence as a state. The ideal that has always floated before me has been a monarchy which should be so far controlled by an independent national representation—according to my notion, representing classes or callings—that monarch or parliament would not be able to alter the existing statutory position before the law separately but only communi consensu; with publicity, and public criticism, by press and Diet, of all political proceedings.
The German who is still free from all Slav or Celtic alloy has a distinctive character and vies with all his equals. When he is allied with other races, provided he has the necessary patience and endurance he always succeeds in becoming, the chief, the directing will, as the husband must be in a household. I have no desire to offend the Slavs, but it is very necessary to recognise that their character has much of the feminine in it: they have charm, intelligence, artifice, address, and often the Germans appear heavy and clumsy beside them. But we always carry the day, and that is why I would like to say to you: when you are doing business with your Slav rivals, even at moments of the most violent anger and in the most critical situations, always retain the profound conviction, the most profound but secret conviction, that you are fundamentally their superiors, and that you always will be so.
If we really came to a position in which we could no longer produce the grain which we must necessarily consume, then in what state would we be if in wartime we had no Russian grain imports and perhaps simultaneously were blockaded along our coasts – in other words, if we had no grain at all?
In the domain of political economy the abstract doctrines of science leave me perfectly cold, my only standard of judgment being experience.
I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother’s milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away.
I am not antagonistic to the rightful claims of capital; I am far from wanting to flourish a hostile flag; but I am of opinion that the masses, too, have rights which should be considered.