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~ A. J. Liebling
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power.
~ Timothy Snyder
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A long, intricate, but essentially unbroken line connects that rejection of the liberal university in 1968 to the orthodoxy on elite campuses today.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The intrigues of unworthy courtiers to gain the favour of still more unworthy kings, or the records of murderous battles and sieges, have been dilated on, and told over and over again, with all the eloquence of style and all the charms of fancy; while the circumstances which have most deeply affected the morals and welfare of the people have been passed over with but slight notice, as dry and dull, and capable of neither warmth nor colouring.
~ Charles MacKay
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Well-ordered states and wise princes have taken every care not to drive the nobles to desperation, and to keep the people satisfied and contented, for this is one of the most important objects a prince can have.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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