Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

  

  Lance Loud
  • World
  • Family
  • Friends

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.

  

  Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit
  • Play
  • Never
  • Anything

• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Sometimes
  • Goal
  • Grit

• Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • American
  • Know
  • Football

• I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Dinner

• Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Know

• When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Never
  • Service

• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Jesus

• And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I didn't feel attractive in high school.

  

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  • School
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• My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Father
  • Government
  • Courage

• Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Home

• If you carry around a lot of suppressed or repressed anger (anger you have unconsciously buried) you may lash out at people, blaming or punishing them for something someone else did a long time ago. Because you were unwilling or unable to express how you felt in the past, you may overreact in the present, damaging a relationship.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Anger
  • Damaging

• I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • Music
  • Moments

• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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  • State
  • Maintain