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...Opposition candidates ought to heed Niccolò Machiavelli: “The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognise the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them...
...Niccolò Machiavelli, the father of political science, assumed the point of politics was the acquisition, holding and use of power....
...Draghi’s bold stroke evokes the canny wisdom of Niccolò Machiavelli: “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of...
...Indeed, as Niccolò Machiavelli noted: “Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.”...
...Niccolò Machiavelli may or may not have known about its existence but it cannot be disputed that, while Machiavelli was merely a theoretician, Chanakya helped build one of India’s greatest empires....
...Ludovico Ariosto wrote Orlando Furioso, Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince and Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier....
...One of the early works of Niccolò Machiavelli, the Italian diplomat and author, included an essay on how a prince should deal with rebel subjects....
...When, in Mantel’s story Cromwell indignantly rejects the accusation of being a “Niccolò”, his vehemence only confirms the suspicion that this is indeed the case....
...Niccolò Machiavelli’s supposedly clever advice for leaders was to feign virtue: “The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”...
...The wisdom of this tactic, which Niccolò Machiavelli did not find room for in The Prince, is questionable. So too is his choice of opponent....
...But Mrs May will fight to keep open the option of a no-deal exit, perhaps channelling the advice of Niccolo Machiavelli, who in the 16th century wrote that sometimes it was “a very wise thing to simulate...
...It is continued by Machiavelli and his chapter in the Discourses entitled “How the Disunion between the Plebs and the Senate Made [the Roman] Republic Free and Powerful.”...
...Fabrizio Freda, chief executive of Estée Lauder, grew up in Naples, though his business inspiration comes from an Italian born in Florence: Niccolò Machiavelli....
...Machiavelli acquired his demonic reputation soon after his death in 1527....
...Readers responded: For up-and-coming executives, I strongly recommend The Prince by Machiavelli. I found its tenets most edifying and useful....
...But they cannot allow that their worldview would remain unelectable if they brought Barack Obama out of retirement to front it, and Niccolò Machiavelli out of the grave to run the strategy grid....
...Five centuries after Niccolò Machiavelli shaped our cultural references to how people rise up the ranks, the author has designs on the legacy of the Italian Renaissance writer, aiming to dilute it with a...
...Machiavelli was quite wrong about power. It isn’t something nasty that you get by being as devious as possible. Being feared is not better than being loved....
...Tim Parks, a British novelist who has translated Italian writers including Alberto Moravia and Niccolò Machiavelli into English, is cautiously optimistic about the increasing popularity of translated works...
...Possibly only Niccolò Machiavelli — but then, who says utopia has to come in a form we like and agree with? We could suppose that Daesh’s caliphate is, for them, a utopian ideal....
...- When Machiavelli met Obama. - When Marissa Mayer tried to Be Steve Jobs. - “AHA! PAUL KRUGMAN IS WRONG!!”...
...The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli — ‘a shrewd man . . . should act as skilful archers do, when their target seems too distant: knowing well the power of their bow, they aim at a much higher point, not to...
...But Niccolo Machiavelli kept the dream alive in The Prince, invoking Petrarch’s verse that “ancient and heroic pride in true Italian hearts has never died”....
...In one of the best-known passages from The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli warns rulers of the dangers of political and social change — “there is nothing more difficult to plan, more uncertain of success and...
...Reading Machiavelli’s The Prince was my only other recreation for the weekend. An interesting thought came to me in a half dreamy Dali-like state. Would Machiavelli use social media?...
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