Klemens von Metternich famous quotes

03-24-2025

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Ignorance #Knowledge #Democracy
The obvious is always least understood.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Thinking #Brainstorming #Obvious
Error has never approached my spirit.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Errors #History #Spirit
I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#History #Too Late #World
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

#Government #Europe #Democracy
Stability is not immobility.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Stability #Security
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Failing #Moderation #Circumstances
Italy is only a geographical expression.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Expression #History
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

#Expression #History #Effort
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#History #Evil #Germany
When Paris has a cold, all Europe sneezes.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Europe #Paris #History
Italy is a geographical expression.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Expression #Individualism
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Men #Play #History
The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Events #Can Not
The men who make history have not time to write it.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Writing #Men #History
When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Europe #Paris #Cold
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Ideas #History #Useless

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