Top 26 Quotes About Metternich
#2. I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"
Rigoberta Menchu
#3. The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Klemens Von Metternich
#4. In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
Klemens Von Metternich
#5. 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 Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.
Robert D. Kaplan
#7. Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.
Habeeb Akande
#8. When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
Olivia DeJonge
#13. The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.
Klemens Von Metternich
#14. Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Klemens Von Metternich
#15. I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
Klemens Von Metternich
#16. In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer
#18. I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.
Judi Bari
#21. It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.
Daniel S. Greenberg
#22. In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
Susan Cain
#23. The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer
#26. Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
Klemens Von Metternich
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