Tag Archives: Machiavelli The Prince

caught in the thorns

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Dave

Classically, in politics, going back even to Machiavelli or Lord Chesterfield, one’s adversary is not a demon or an enemy to be obliterated at all costs. The opponent is just another player in a game with set rules and defined … Continue reading →

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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Dave

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading →

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MACHIAVELLI CURTAIN CALL

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Dave

”My take on this is that the system has not broken down. It was built broken. It was designed that way. It’s functioning according to the original plan. Democracy was never the intention. Thwarting democracy was. The U.S. founding fathers … Continue reading →

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DOCTRINE OF DUPLICITY

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Dave

” For that small matter of lies”, wrote Machiavelli,”I am a doctor and hold my degrees. Life has taught me to confound false and true, till no man knows either”. In ”The Prince” his personal confession becomes a general rule; … Continue reading →

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WHEN GOODNESS COMES TO A STICKY END

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dave

Machiavelli: the name leaves no one indifferent. Perhaps one of the most hated men in history among a gallery of rogues. He has been charged, down through the centuries with being the sole poisonous source of political monkey business, of … Continue reading →