Crushed Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

— Thomas Fuller

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance

— Steve Perry

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

— Walter Raleigh

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it…

— Socrates

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws…

— Thucydides

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it…

— Robert E. Lee