[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
“[...] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality” — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“the wily Machiavelli had always believed that any clod could have the facts—having an opinion was an art.” — Ashwin Sanghi 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
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
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn 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
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
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak.… — Don King Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too… — David Ignatius 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
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But if you’re serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it… — Beau Biden 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
“If a prince wants to keep up a reputation for being generous, Machiavelli remarks: it is necessary for him not to neglect… — Niccolò Machiavelli 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Machiavelli stresses that it's better as a leader to be feared than to be loved. Ideally you would be both loved and… — Nigel Warburton 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
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
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