Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden […] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
Otto von Bismarck - Translation: Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided […] but by iron and blood.
I post this because I saw a production of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Evita last night, and one of the most chilling scenes is a song called ‘The Art of the Possible’, which was Bismarck’s description of politics. The scene illustrates, in a way so simple as to be severely chilling, the political maneuvering and removal of opponents that was commonplace in Argentinean politics at the time.
For the song, either click http://open.spotify.com/track/52AFTnCzp1jUUOMNAdpbeT or (though lower quality) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinFwq9FSrQ
