Action Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

“I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

“Machiavelli stresses that it's better as a leader to be feared than to be loved. Ideally you would be both loved and feared, but…

— Nigel Warburton

“Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way…

— David Mitchell

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is…

— Anonymous

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly…

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The Machinist ain’t exactly loquacious when it comes down to his nefarious undertakings.”

— Kady Cross

“Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.”

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman

“If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.”

— David Nicol

“All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.”

— Joseph Bonanno

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

— John Jay Chapman