"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
Topic(s):
Society
More From Niccolo Machiavelli
- "A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
- "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."
- "War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
More In Society
- "I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go."― Mikhail Baryshnikov
- "You use words like ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert,’ various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."― Michael Fassbender
- "It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know."― Friedrich August von Hayek