It should be noted that hatred is acquired as much by good works as by bad ones, therefore, as I said before, a prince wishing to keep his state is very often forced to do evil.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and toy for the most audacious feats of the liberated intellect.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.
~ Charles MacKay
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Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
~ Dieter Rams
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It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This is not the story of a man who joined the people. It’s the story of a man who studied them, branded them and built a media empire on their backs. He frames everything as a spiritual battle — America versus the elites. But Steve Bannon is the elite. He just speaks rage fluently. So here’s the question: if a man tells you he’s at war with the empire while still cashing royalty checks from it, do you believe him? Or do you finally see it for what it is?
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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