#machiavelli

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can. ↗

— Michael Scott

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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#machiavelli #power #faith