Family Quote by Ezra Pound

“The order should not have been given,' she said. 'It was not done for the city but for your private ends.' I shook my…

— John Christopher

“When a prince’s personal conduct is correct,” Confucius said, “his government is effective without the issuing of orders. If his personal conduct is not…

— Evan Osnos

“It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in respect of…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“That I was not long brought up by the concubine of my father; that I preserved the flower of my youth. That I took…

— Marcus Aurelius

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the…

— Jonathan Swift

“there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.…

— Helen Keller

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure…

— Freda Adler

“If I am disobeying orders, I'd rather be with God against men than with men against God.”

— Aristides de Souza Mendes do Amaral e Abranches

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

— Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order…

— Nancy Goldstone

“I say, then, that hereditary States, accustomed to the family of their Prince, are maintained with far less difficulty than new States, since all…

— Niccolò Machiavelli