Word: machiavelli
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Maxwell was a lifelong subscriber to Machiavelli's dictum that it is better to be feared than loved. David Adler, who was a Maxwell executive for three years, remembers being called on the carpet because he was unable to meet his master's plane at the airport. (He sent three limousines instead.) "Remember," Maxwell bellowed, "I am the most important person in your life...
...MACHIAVELLI WOULD have used other language. Cuomo may incrementally drive New York City into oblivion. While the governor jumps on soapboxes and rightly berates Reagan and Bush for abandoning the cities, he cynically does the same himself. His most recent, most befuddling economic move shows just how far he has strayed from his own declared goals...
...MACHIAVELLI TEACHES that nations and politicians have no ideals, no virtues; they have only interests and strengths. In this sense, Bush is a classic political hypocrite. He chose to liberate Kuwait under the banner of American ideals--ideals he refuses to uphold just a few weeks later...
Nowadays, few would agree with ultrarealists like Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes or Pudd'nhead--ethical concerns can and do affect the alliance behavior of some states...
...American credibility. Once the U.S. made its initial rhetorical commitments to Israel, it could not afford to rescind them. In the zero-sum bipolar world, the U.S. feared that nonsupport for one of its allies would send others scurrying to the Soviet Union for protection. In the spirit of Machiavelli, America has preferred to reassure the Western bloc that its resident superpower would remain "a true friend...