Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

You tell Anderson Silva that I'm coming over and I'm kicking down his backdoor and patting his little lady on the ass and I'm telling her to make me a steak, medium-rare just how I like it.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Some people have more guts than brains.

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.