Macchiavelli Quotes & Sayings

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light. — Christoph Heinrich

I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be. — Guy Fieri

I love Rihanna, Rihanna seems like a fun person to be friends with, she seems like a fun time to be [around]. — Alana Haim

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it. — Damon Albarn

Would you prefer to be feared or loved Lord Ells?"
He smiled crookedly at her, "You like quotes, don't you? So, it's as Machievelli said, 'It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot have both it is better to be feared than loved.'"
"I'd rather be loved. Only loved," she whispered to him. — Cristiane Serruya

Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You see," she said, "with the axe, it's easier to get ahead. . . . — Brandon Sanderson

Find your passion and let it shine for the world to see. Nobody will see the scars you endure, only the brilliance of who you are. Let that be how you're judged. — J.M. Macchiavelli

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. — Benjamin Franklin

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus. — Charles Caleb Colton

Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
between whose endless jar justice resides,
should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then everything includes itself in power,
power into will, will into appetite;
and appetite, an universal wolf,
so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal prey
and at last eat up himself. — William Shakespeare

You know math isn't my thing. — Carolyn J. Rose