Quotes About Machiavellianism

#1. Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

Larisa Alexandrovna

#2. I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Alexandre Aja

#3. You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.

Haddon W. Robinson

#4. It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

Frederick The Great

#5. I was nine when I figured out it's better to be respected than liked.

A.D. Aliwat

#6. The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Confucius

#7. Thank God for today's grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. A good rule, for this job and many others: give praise publicly and criticism privately. The

Jonathan Kern

#9. It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#10. Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

#11. But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.

Umberto Eco

#12. I've been very active in Missouri.

Jim Talent