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
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you’ll find that our country is far more harmonious than you’re being told”
Rob Schneider
“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
“Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster.”
Samuel Edward Konkin III
“I divide the world into three Classes – The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“Nothing is as dangerous to feminism as a traditional woman in the splendor of her full femininity.”
Unbekannt
“One cause is rooted in the sad human truth that ‘slaves’ usually dream less of what it would be like to be free than of what it would be like to be ‘slave overseers'”
Dr. Dr. Florian Willet
“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh
“You don’t become right-wing by listening to right-wingers, but by listening to left-wingers.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
