Responsibility Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

“There are better things than princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”

— Jonathan Swift

“To gain everything and lose everything in the space of a moment. That is the fate of all princes destined for the throne.”

— C.S. Pacat

“It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of…

— Matthew Henry

“We were not made to please princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes, they even…

— L.J. Shen