Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.