“Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved. — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.” — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. — Mack McLarty Copy Share Image
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengence need not be feared"… — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
“These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.” — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
“All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.” — Joseph Bonanno Copy Share Image
“[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.” — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world. — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
“Machiavelli observed that ‘wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please’.” — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli,… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed… — George Will Copy Share Image
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
“Prudent men are wont to say--and this not rashly or without good ground--that he who would foresee what has to be should… — Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
“Washington politician: navy tailored suit, hair graying at the temples, a smile for every constituent, blue eyes that could convey sincerity, anger,… — R.D. Brady Copy Share Image
“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never seen a beginner do so well. How do… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Machiavelli wrote in the 16th century; when every land in the world so teams with people, that can neither subsist where they… — Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The offerings of Machiavelli (1469–1527), Guicciardini (1483–1540), La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) and La Bruyère (1645–96) give us an indication of the manoeuvres that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the… — Michael Scott 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
“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
“Who was it who said, 'The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“BILLY: Did you ever watch Star Trek? MACHIAVELLI: Do I look like I watch Star Trek? BILLY: It's hard to tell who's… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Was this how you were going to awaken the creatures?" Machiavelli,clutching the bars of his cell,smiled but said nothing. Virginia stood in… — Michael Scott 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
“systematic tools for getting results, whether in business or international diplomacy, summed up in Beyond Machiavelli and Getting It DONE;” — Roger Fisher Copy Share Image
It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
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