Nicolò Machiavelli was most famous for writing the essay The Prince during the 1500’s, which emphasized the need for stability, rather than fairness. The text was written as a guide to keeping power above all
Niccolo Machiavelli, a Florence native, presented revolutionary ideas about leadership in his famous work “The Prince.” This sort of “how-to” handbook for rulers was written in a time when power was frequently changing hands, leaving nations in constant confusion (The Prince, 443). Machiavell...
Machiavelli for Mayors (aka The Municipal Machiavelli) is my modern rewriting of Niccolo Machiavelli’s famous (or infamous) work, The Prince. I researched and wrote it in 2012, compiling a large library of books on Machiavelli, by Machiavelli, about Renaissance politics, Italian history, politica...
As regards recent scholarship, Isaiah Berlin lists over a hundred significant studies in his famous essay ‘The Originality of Machiavelli.’ Now more than four centuries old, what Croce says at the end of his life seems still relevant for each and every late comer who wants to write on Mach...
Beccaria is so concise and articulate that it keeps being most efficient to just quote him directly: Another ridiculous reason for torture is the purgation of infamy; that is, a man judged infamous by law must confirm his deposition with the dislocation of his bones. This abuse should not ...
The objective of the game is varied and the quote on the cover of the box, "Is it better to be feared than loved?" is a good explanation of the choices you'll be facing. As with most other games, you begin at a weak point with only a certain amount of funds (1500 credits) and...
Lenin can be said to be a true disciple of this maxim, since he shrank from no injustice or cruelty to achieve his goals. However, he was no disciple of Machiavelli justbecause of those goals. The quote just given is immediately followed by: ...
. The idea of the means justifying the ends is one of the most famous concepts promoted by Machiavelli. Hubbard shows that he is willing to put this idea to the test, with one deviously succinct quote. “You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start ...
Machiavelli The Prince Quote Analysis In chapter 15 of The Prince, Machiavelli states that “the manner in which men live is so different from the way in which they ought to live, that he who leaves the common course for that which he ought to follow will find that it leads him to ruin...
A famous aristocrat named, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote the book, “The Prince (1513), his most celebrated work, was a general treatise on the qualities the prince (that is, ruler) must have to maintain his power” Jacobus (84). Within this essay, he writes about the “Qualities of the ...