"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
Topic(s):
Men
More From Niccolo Machiavelli
More In Men
- "I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."― Douglas MacArthur
- "Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."― Sigmund Freud
- "You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."― Henry Ford