Word: machiavellis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These practices date all the way back to Machiavelli's 16th Century The Prince, (and likely before) which wasn't published widely until four or so years after his death. Three centuries later, a trio of Jane Austen novels - Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Love and Friendship - were released after the Pride and Prejudice author's death in 1817. Charles Dicken's final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remains unfinished; readers will never know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer...
...course the whole sentence is a threat to beat up someone who disagrees with him - in particular, someone who refuses to acknowledge his God-guaranteed superiority over everyone else. And this religious fanatic will express his freedom by committing suicide in order to kill thousands of his enemies. Machiavelli, whom Milton admired, reasoned that a prince who was feared would survive longer than one who was loved. Literature does not work that way. For better or worse, millions love Shakespeare. Lovers are, of course, blind, and will forgive any number of faults. Milton is hard to love. Smith claims...
...This makes for a novel way of practicing the art of politics-one inspired, you could say, by the prince called the Buddha more than by the one described by Machiavelli. The central principle of Buddhism is the idea of interdependence-the notion that all sentient beings are linked together in a network that was classically known as Indra's Net. Thus, calling Chinese individuals your enemy and Tibetans your friend, the Dalai Lama might suggest, is as crazy as calling your right eye your ally and your left your adversary; you usually need both to function well...
...promising of scholars, until he has clearly distinguished himself in his respective field. By the time an academic has ascended to such a height, he has presumably amassed an incredibly broad knowledge of his subject and, most likely, attained unrivaled expertise in his specialty—whether it be Machiavelli or early American midwifery.As such, professors, if we trust the judgment of Harvard, are credible authorities in their fields and are qualified to pass on their vast knowledge to students, in perspicacious lectures, well-structured seminars, and carefully-selected reading lists. Such lights of the Academy ought to be entrusted...
While Putin may be "Tsar of the New Russia," as you called him, he is most definitely its new prince as described by Machiavelli back in the 16th century. Putin has managed his power with a deftness and an intelligence rarely seen in modern statesmen. You have it right; his Russia will be a major element of the 21st century...