Quotes Tagged With :machiavelli

If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he....

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and....

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian....

In politics what you see is not what you get

It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one....

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity....

Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you....

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince,....

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.