| But to so-called scholars, Italians are born sleazes and Machiavelli was the King Sleazo. |
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| If this sounds like wild speculation, recall that it has in fact been standard political practice since the time of Machiavelli. |
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| For as Machiavelli recognized, today's friend can quickly become tomorrow's enemy. |
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| Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects. |
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| Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli. |
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| Yet, here he was enduring heat, bugs and primitive conditions and all the while utilizing the manipulative skills of a Machiavelli. |
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| Lock becomes the possum caught in the headlights, fascinated and appalled by a Machiavelli she both loved and feared. |
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| Machiavelli also mentions the ecclesiastical principality with the pope as the ecclesiastical prince. |
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| It is not the kindness of this prince's heart but the piercing realism of Machiavelli that has produced this morally preferable outcome. |
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| Machiavelli drew a similar contrast between himself and his predecessors, although he, unlike Sophocles and Raphael, added a value judgment. |
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| Convention says that the Florentine civil servant, power-broker and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli, was a nasty piece of work. |
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| Machiavelli begins by affirming that everybody realizes how praiseworthy it is when a ruler lives uprightly and not by trickery. |
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| This longstanding judgement is far from unique to popular, non-expert interpretations of Machiavelli. |
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| A detailed analysis of The Prince would be needed in order to unpick the ambivalent feelings Machiavelli had towards Cesare. |
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| Indeed, Machiavelli did hold the view that the perpetuation of the state was more important than the life of the individual. |
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| From 1903 Wells devoted much of his energy to the Fabian movement but after falling out with their leaders savagely caricatured them in his novel, The New Machiavelli. |
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| The Medicis regained power in 1512 with the help of Spanish troops, and Machiavelli was deposed from his public office, imprisoned and tortured with the strappado. |
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| But while Hobbes was a rationalist, Machiavelli was an historicist. |
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| Emerging in the eighteenth century, political economy drew on the individualism of Hobbes and Locke, the pragmatism of Machiavelli, and the empiricism of Bacon. |
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| As Machiavelli stresses in chapter 2, his interest lies not in republics as such, but rather in the government of cities, whether they are ruled as republics or as princedoms. |
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| Machiavelli identifies two ways of governing a principality. |
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| Machiavelli himself, author of groundbreaking comedies such as the Mandragola, became a proverbial figure of evil on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. |
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| He concludes: While none of this was part of a grand design, Machiavelli would be proud. |
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| Mugabe, the Machiavelli of Africa with infinite reserves of guile, has always cleverly played one heir apparent off against another. |
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| The program was fed a set of 89 texts written by nine Italians, including Dante, Machiavelli and Pirandello. |
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| That is the order of the day: too much Machiavelli and not enough Montesquieu. |
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| I wish you the wisdom of a Montesquieu, but also the strength and cunning of a Machiavelli, to get your programme through. |
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| It seems to me that Machiavelli was more of an inspiration than Montesquieu when the Commission's powers were designed. |
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| I was interested myself to have an exchange with the president about the works of Nicolo Machiavelli. |
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| In formulating the principles of modern politics, Machiavelli also invented foresight and posed it as an absolute necessity. |
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| Ethics in modern governance has been one of the more enduring themes in the study of government at least since the time of Machiavelli. |
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| To take one example among others, we speak about Machiavelli and Hobbes when we could have mentioned Kautilya, Nizam Al Mulk or Pachacutec. |
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| In a business ethics class, you can use that as an example instead of Machiavelli, which provides a way into the concept. |
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| Impossible plot machinations have been ceded to Machiavelli and the Italian states. |
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| Machiavelli laments the decline of the Italian city-states and attributes it to the use of mercenary and auxiliary armies instead of native forces. |
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| After years of quiet circulation, it was banned, but Machiavelli copied it. |
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| A couple of years at the White House would turn Pollyanna into Machiavelli. |
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| Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms. |
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| Even Machiavelli would have trouble getting his head round that one. |
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| In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli asserts that if his son Louis XI had continued this policy, then the French would have become invincible. |
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| Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo Bruni, Machiavelli, and many others laid the groundwork for our understanding of science. |
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| Whether Machiavelli is overstating issues and Piero had merely ordered a thorough accounting is unknown. |
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| Compared with Machiavelli, it has often been considered in the west has as akin to the Realpolitikal thought of ancient China. |
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| Burlatsky took his first degree at the Tashkent Juridical Institute, a PhD at the Institute of State and Law in Moscow and a higher doctorate in philosophy – on Machiavelli. |
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| The second lesson is that, for their part, the European leaders are the children of Machiavelli, and his doublespeak, and of Hanna Arendt, and her banality of evil. |
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| Mark Schnell filed complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1999 and 2000, claiming that John Micka and Machiavelli and Associates Emprize Inc. discriminated against him. |
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| Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city. |
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| We go backwards in history from Montesquieu to Merkel and Machiavelli. |
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| Machiavelli tells us in The Prince that the emperor Maximilian consulted no one, yet never got his own way because he kept his plans secret and found them obstructed by those he should have won over. |
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| You mentioned Montesquieu, and someone else wanted Machiavelli. |
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| When describing, 500 years ago, the contemporary modalities of power, Niccolò Machiavelli remarked 'There are two forms of political combat, one using law, the other using force. |
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| If that is the case, they will have learned, at their personal expense, that the old adage 'have no accomplices, or eliminate them after using them,' attributed to Machiavelli, is still up to date. |
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| The other is a conviction, shared with the ancient Greeks and Machiavelli, that good citizens matter more to free societies than good institutions. |
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| Another notable individual was Machiavelli, an Italian political philosopher, considered a founder of modern political science. |
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| Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, a work of realist political theory. |
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| Human agency was a central element in the historical thought of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, but they did not have a modern notion of individuality. |
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| Book stores offer abundant titles suggesting that managers emulate Machiavelli, Atilla the Hun and other unsavory but decisive individuals from history. |
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| Italian culture flourished at this time, producing famous scholars, artists and polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. |
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| Machiavelli can probably be trusted here since there was a rash of bankruptcies and bank failures in Florence shortly after Cosimo's death which led to a small recession. |
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| In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled The Prince, which is about ruling and the exercise of power. |
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