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“I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.”

Fashion Stripes Trousers Checkers Metternich

Book:Royal Flash

Source: Royal Flash

“İmparatorluk günden güne zayıflamaktadır. Niçin saklamalı? Onu bu hale düşüren sebeplerin başında Avrupalılaşma zihniyeti gelir. Temellerini III.Selim’in attığı bu zihniyeti, derin cehaleti ve sonsuz hayalperestliği yüzünden II.Mahmut son haddine vardırır. Bâbıâli’ye tavsiyemiz şudur: Hükümetimizi dinî kanunlarınıza saygı esası üzerine kurunuz. Devlet olarak varlığınızın temeli, Padişahla Müslüman tab’a arasındaki en kuvvetli bağ dindir. Zamana uyun, çağın ihtiyaçlarını dikkate alın.İdarenizi düzene sokun ıslah edin. Ama yerine size hiç de uymayacak olan müesseseleri koymak için eskilerini yıkmayın. Avrupa medeniyetinden sizing kanun ve nizamlarınıza uymayan kanunları almayın. Batı kanunlarının temeli hristiyanlıktır. Türk kalınız. Tatbik edemeyeceğiniz kanunu çıkarmayın. Hak bellediğiniz yolda ilerleyin. Batının sözlerine kulak asmayın. Siz ilerlemeye bakın. Adalet ve bilgiyi elden bırakmayın. Avrupa efkar-ı umumiyesinin az çok değeri olan kısmını yanınızda bulacaksınız… Kısaca, biz Bâbıâli’yi kendi idare tarzının tanzim ve ıslahı için giriştiği teşebbüslerden vazgeçirmek istemiyoruz. Ama, Avrupa örnek olarak alınmamalıdır kendine. Avrupa’nın şartları başkadır, Türkiye’nin başka. Avrupa’nın temel kanunları Doğunun örf ve adetlerine taban tabana zıttır. Ithal ıslahattan kaçının. Bu gibi ıslahat Müslüman memleketlerini ancak felakete sürükler. Onlardan hayır gelmez sizlere.” METTERNICH”

Istanbul Türkiye Bu üLke Cemil Meriç Metternich Osmanlı

Book:Bu Ülke

Source: Bu Ülke

“The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.”

Politician Excellent Diplomats Verdict Metternich

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“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.”

World Bones Odd Regimes Flood Fossils Metternich

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?”

Source: The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings

“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.”

Men World Wells Able Past Pieces Century Building Genius Politician Flaws Fragile Outstanding Nineteenth Century Bismarck Metternich

Book:Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Source: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

“[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron.”