Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527

Topics

MenEvilFreeHimAlwaysOut

I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.

Joe Morton

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I can't sing anything other than country!

Joe Nichols

CountryAnythingSingThanOther

I love working with talented young performers.

Jodi Benson

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One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

HonestyMottoFirstIndustryThen

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back.

Robert Maillet

PassionYouLoseBackPointGoing

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

Tom Golisano

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In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

Roger Moore

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There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

Russell Peters

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If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

Mike Pence

RestaurantDiscriminationGayPerson

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

Michael Strahan

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In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Chuck Todd

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