Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.
~ Charles MacKay
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Deceit and duplicity aren’t bugs in Steve Bannon’s matrix; they’re part of the operating system.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Discipline in war counts more than fury.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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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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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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The argument over which matters more, economics or culture, may obsess the political class, but Americans living paycheck to paycheck, ill-served by decades of financial neglect and polarizing culture wars, can’t easily separate the two. All of it—wages, migrants, police, guns, classrooms, trade, the price of gas, the meaning of the flag—can be a source of chaos or of dignity. The real question is this: Can our politics, in its current state, deliver hard-pressed Americans greater stability and independence, or will it only inflict more disruption and pain?
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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It is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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