Quotes About Manipulation

Men are less worried about letting down someone who has made himself loved than someone who makes himself feared.

Perché le iniurie si debbono fare tutte insieme, acciò che, assaporandosi meno, offendino meno: e' benefizii si debbono fare a poco a poco, acciò che si assaporino meglio.

For since men who are well treated by one whom they expected to treat them ill, feel the more beholden to their benefactor, the people will at once become better disposed to such a Prince when he protects them, than if he owed his Princedom to them.

This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.

Moreover, men are less careful how they offend him who makes himself loved than him who makes himself feared. For love is held by the tie of obligation, which, because men are a sorry breed, is broken on every whisper of private interest; but fear is bound by the apprehension of punishment which never relaxes its grasp.

Those princes who have done great things … in the end have overcome those who relied on their word.

A wise prince must devise ways by which his citizens are always and in all circumstances dependent on him and on his authority; and then they will always be faithful to him.

Alexander the Sixth did nothing else but deceive men, nor ever thought of doing otherwise, and he always found victims; for there never was a man who had greater power in asserting, or who with greater oaths would affirm a thing, yet would observe it less.

For these reasons Louis the Twelfth, King of France, quickly occupied Milan, and as quickly lost it; and to turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico's own forces; because those who had opened the gates to him, finding themselves deceived in their hopes of future benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince.

A wise prince, when he has the opportunity, ought with craft to foster some animosity against himself, so that, having crushed it, his renown may rise higher.

His actions have arisen in such a way, one out of the other, that men have never been given time to work steadily against him.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to feared than loved.

It's easy to convince people of something, but hard to keep them convinced.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say. And if sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina. Porque es natural que el que se ha vuelto poderoso recele de la misma astucia o de la misma fuerza gracias a las cuales se lo ha ayudado.

es que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso provoca su propia ruina.

Çünkü gerçekten sahiplenebilmek için yak?p y?kmaktan baÅŸka bir çare de yoktur. Ve özgürce yaÅŸamaya al???k bir kenti ele geçiren biri eÄŸer o kenti yak?p y?kmazsa, kendisi o kent taraf?ndan yak?l?p y?k?lmay? bekliyor demektir.

Quien propicia que otro se vuelva poderoso obra su propia ruina.

Porque las ofensas deben inferirse de una sola vez para que, durando menos, hieran menos; mientras que los beneficios deben proporcionarse poco a poco, a fin de que se saboreen mejor.

war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others;

because the haves of this world cannot quietly inherit what is coming to them; lest they be treated now as they once treated others, they must keep an eye on the have-nots. To keep a step ahead of the have-nots the haves must think and behave like have-nots. They certainly cannot afford justice to the have-nots, nor can they waste time or money on sympathy.

The Prince before its first legal publication in English in 1640

Y los hombres tienen menos cuidado en ofender a uno que se haga amar que a uno que se haga temer;

Przeto gdy krzywdzi siÄ™ czÅ'owieka, nale?y czyni? to w ten sposób, aby nie trzeba byÅ'o obawia? siÄ™ zemsty