Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes: Profound Truths About Power and Possession
“He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
“He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”
Marvin Simkin
“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.”
Prof. Reiner Mausfeld
“Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say ‘no’.”
Fritz Bauer
“It is a great consolation in elections that only one of several candidates can be elected!”
Mark Twain
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”
Edward Bernays
“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
Bertolt Brecht
