Machiavelli

Examples

• That alone was enough to make Machiavelli, the father of modern foreign policy, turn in his grave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Machiavelli recognized Lorenzo the Magnificent; Marx, the proletariat of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Its unsoundness was not evident to Machiavelli. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Machiavelli's ethics are commonplace enough. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Wells has been savage and often unfair about the Fabian Society, but in The New Machiavelli he touched, I believe, the real disillusionment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• With his father's assistance he had become duke of a wide area of Central Italy when Machiavelli visited him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The rare value of Machiavelli is just this lack of self-deception. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Not so Machiavelli. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Machiavelli reorganized the Florentine army, wrote speeches for the gonfalonier, was indeed the ruling intelligence in Florentine affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Able servants after the order of Machiavelli guided him at first in the arts of kingship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was the celebrated Florentine, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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