"... who is this Machiavelli dude and why did Lord Obama learn so much from a tomato sauce maker?"
Posted on 03/10/2009 6:06:46 PM PDT by mnehring
In my reading tonight, I discovered several quotes that seems to describe perfectly how Obama has governed. Scroll to the bottom of the list to see who said them, no it is not Bill Ayers or Marx.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from man until it is ripe for execution.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Politics have no relation to morals.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
....all quotes come from the mind of.... Niccolo Machiavelli
you forgot:
Oh, what the fvck do the people know?
and
I won
“Me, Myself, and I. Who else really matters anyway?”
Do you really think we need to scroll down to know the author?
For FReepers, no, I knew it would be obvious.. but I had to keep the suspense up.. :->
Of course, the trolls from DU would be asking, who is this Machiavelli dude and why did Lord Obama learn so much from a tomato sauce maker?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolf Hitler
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler
Something very funny.. during the campaign, I posted these and several others, on a Dem forum but took out Hitler’s name and replaced them with Obama and got the libs to ‘ra ra’ these quotes and start repeating those.. it worked for about a week until someone decided to google one and figure it out...
ping
I knew it on the first quotation...
Cheers!
"... who is this Machiavelli dude and why did Lord Obama learn so much from a tomato sauce maker?"
Close, but it's actually Goebbels.
Excellent!
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