Machiavel Quotes

#1. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#2. Every Country hath its Machiavel.

Thomas Browne

#3. 'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Michael Ignatieff

#4. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Francis Bacon

#5. The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

Che Guevara

#6. I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

King Hu

#7. An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

Artie Shaw

#8. I have so much to learn when it comes to running. I just don't ever want it to feel like a chore. When I choose to sign up for a race or go out for a run, it's to make myself feel good, and I almost always do.

Summer Sanders

#9. I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Alexander Rodchenko

#10. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Buck Owens

#11. The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Gaston Bachelard

#12. In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler.

Meg Rosoff

#13. Financial independence is about having more choices.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Elbert Hubbard