Disgraceful Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“To govern more securely some Princes have disarmed their subjects...but by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

— Jimmy Savile

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys…

— Joel Barlow

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli