Existence Quote by Max Lerner

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 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

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He…

— George Will

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

— Mads Mikkelsen

“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

“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

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The…

— Noam Chomsky

Politics is activity in relation to power

— Francis Parker Yockey

In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim…

— Maya Angelou

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

— Lord Acton

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation…

— David Hume