A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
~ A. J. Liebling
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Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
~ Timothy Snyder
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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In the past decade, the hope that the European Union could win some measure of military or financial independence from America has proved illusory. Instead, the continent has slid into ever deeper dependence on the United States. Yet such a drift will accelerate rather than halt the decline European Union leaders bemoan; bulk buying American weapons and energy, for instance, will not make European industry world leading again.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It is with good reason that the economic historian Adam Tooze has castigated European Union technocrats as “the Taliban of neoliberalism” for their intransigent attachment to market principles in an age that has declared them obsolete. Jettisoning this dogma is crucial; loosening the fiscal rules for member states would facilitate economic catch-up, on the back of a serious strategy of public investment.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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