Strange & Unusual Sayings

10,844 sayings found from the Modern era

The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, late 19th century
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Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, late 19th century
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During my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things... I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefiel…

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, late 19th century
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During my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things... I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefiel…

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, late 19th century
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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There are a lot of people who have only one thought all their lives, and they never come into conflict with it. I am not one of them; I learn from life, I learn as long as I live, I learn even today. It is possible that in a year or a few, if I still…

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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There are a lot of people who have only one thought all their lives, and they never come into conflict with it. I am not one of them; I learn from life, I learn as long as I live, I learn even today. It is possible that in a year or a few, if I still…

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Politics is not a science to be learned, it is an art, and he who cannot do it had better stay away from it.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Politics is not a science to be learned, it is an art, and he who cannot do it had better stay away from it.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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It is easier to criticize than to govern.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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It is easier to criticize than to govern.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1915
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