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It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
— Rush Limbaugh
A Prince should esteem the great, but must not make himself odious to the people.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits.prl.3
— Charles Duhigg
We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
— Nick Clooney
YOU'RE TOO DAMN SELFISH!!!
— Owen Hart
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.
— Tom Rath
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
— D.H. Lawrence
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
— Nadine Gordimer
A lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
— Bill Shankly
I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.
— Jacques Barzun
I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.
— Ilya Bryzgalov
The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
— Calvin Trillin
In republics there is more life, more hatred, more desire for revenge. - MACHIAVELLI, The Prince, chapter five
— Christopher Celenza
16Better to have little, with fear for the LORD, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.
— Anonymous
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
— Saul Alinsky
It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli