Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
