Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also co

The unarmed man is not just defenseless – he is also contemptible.
Niccolo Machiavelli
it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father,

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli