Nature Quote by 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

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Martin, perceiving some shelves filled with English books, said to the senator, “I fancy that a republican must be highly delighted with those books,…

— Voltaire

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”

— Frederick Smock

“The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And…

— Orlando Figes

“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Prudent men are wont to say--and this not rashly or without good ground--that he who would foresee what has to be should reflect on…

— Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli

“The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present" -Niccolo Machiavelli”

— Michael Scott

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face,…

— Maximilien Robespierre