While we doubt any of our 16Personalities readers find themselves in a position akin to Machiavelli’s 16th-century monarch (at least we hope not!), it’s not uncommon for people today to take the view that the end justifies the means – especially in a society that is so often driven ...
What Would Machiavelli Do? He would feast on other people's discord He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand either He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry He would kill people, but ...
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. —Nick Harkaway 23 But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine ...
Brett McKay: Welcome to another edition of The Art of Manliness podcast. The ends justify the means. It’s better to be feared than loved. Politics have no relation to morals. These are just a few of the maxims and ideas the Italian writer Niccolò Machiavelli is well known for, the cyn...
a Machiavellian. Machiavelli didn’t wish to care for morals or spiritual integrity; however, he didn’t arrange to establish the approach to wickedness. As a matter of fact, he argues that the concept the ends justify the means are meant to be followed, but only when necessary commands fo...
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was actually a Republican that seems to me after reading “The Prince”, wrote with both a liberal and conservative feel. He seemed to examine the methods by which a state could exert their power in which the ends would justify the means in their process ...
We’ve paraphrased a statement Machiavelli made in “The Prince” where he discusses “the concept of a ruler sometimes needing to take morally questionable actions to achieve a greater good; essentially implying that the desired outcome (“the end”) can justify the methods used to get there ...
“The ends justify the means.”— Niccolo Machiavelli(possible source: Roman poet Ovid) “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”— Winston Churchill(possible source: Francois Guizot) ...
Its main focus is that the ends—no matter how immoral—justify the means for preserving political authority. While some may agree with this mindset of thinking many today dismiss Machiavelli as a cynic. The book shows rulers how it is that they should act to survive in the real world to ...
,Nicolli Makaveli, a Utalitarian devotee in some of his works makes a statement that aids in understanding utility, “For Machiavelli the ends justify the means, but the ends themselves are not simply power for power’s sake” (Erb), the end , is the Utopia, but at the cost of the ...