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Bad Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to…
- The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by…
- And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
- Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their…
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their…
- States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
More Bad Quotes
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- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
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- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
- People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe