Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
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  • Truth

• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Project
  • Materials
  • Budget

• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • End
  • Nothing

• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Up
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• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Single
  • Problem
  • Sad

• At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Things
  • Many
  • Permanent

• For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Me
  • Alone

• The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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  • Deception

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
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• ... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Should
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  • Demand

• Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Life
  • Education
  • Development

• To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Care

• Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Health
  • Violence
  • Laws

• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Death
  • Laws

• So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  

  George Eliot
  • Music
  • Join
  • Gladness

• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Fire
  • Gold

• Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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  • Morals
  • Observed