CD: Philosophical Quotes - Machiavelli

Philosophical Quotes - Machiavelli · Société de motivation philosophique de Louisville

Selected quotes and readings from the works of the political philosopher and statesman Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), who lived in Italy during the Renaissance. Machiavelli's name has become short-hand for a backstabbing and cold political style, and it's sometimes thought The Prince, his most famous work, was in fact intended as a satire on the cruelty of the leaders of the time.

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"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed...

...because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries.

Of more serious ones they cannot.

Therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind...

... that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

"Never allow a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war...

...or you are only postponing a war to someone else's advantage."

"Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious...

...and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed."

"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."

"He who abandons what is done for what ought to be done...

...will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation."

"Consider the results that have been achieved through the means...

...rather than the means by which they have been executed."

"It is far safer to be feared than loved."

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