Century Quote by George Will

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the…

— Michael Ignatieff

In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made…

— Michael A. Ledeen

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he…

— Salman Rushdie

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

— Mads Mikkelsen

Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible…

— Algernon Sidney

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by…

— J. M. Coetzee

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“In The Prince Machiavelli mounts two distinct lines of intellectual and political attack, one against the baseness of Medicean statecraft, the other against the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is,” he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not only at…

— Stanley Bing

“Such as they are, its ethics are those of Machiavelli's contemporaries; yet they cannot be said to be out of date so long as…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly…

— Beau Biden