[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved. — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
“Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc…doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
“Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.” — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli’s way.” — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it Machiavelli who said ‘Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among… — Darius Brasher Copy Share Image
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I knew Saleh well, having interviewed and met with him several times. He was a professional Machiavelli, fluent in all forms for… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is,” he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I no longer believed that Valentino would continue to build anything at all. Instead, he would merely leave behind the empire of… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“The truth is that Machiavelli did try to obtain a position from the Medici, but he did not write The Prince in… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than… — Ted Kallman Copy Share Image
“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
“Machiavelli’s descriptions of the strategic and tactical rules of this world are valuable despite an element of caricature: A Prince, therefore, should… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I need something dramatic.I thought we would start with something theatrical, something that will make an impact on the city,something to focus… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“I did not have an answer for the maestro that day. Instead my answer has been the labor of my life, principally… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is important to recognize that notions of self-fashioning were circulating in Renaissance Europe not only among members of the rising… — Helena Goscilo Copy Share Image
“Niccolo Machiavelli folded his arms across his chest and looked at the alchemyst. “I always knew we would meet again,” he said… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. Machiavelli” — Kaylin Lee Copy Share Image
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image