Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

There be some, that taking pleasure in contemplating their own power in the acts of conquest, which they pursue farther than their security requires

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Let us first render ourselves popular by mighty deeds, and afterwards we will speak of peace and clemency. In the disputes of others let us always put ourselves on the side of the stronger. If we would become rich in men and cattle, we cannot help making enemies; but they will not roar for ever.

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

One does not make war except to preserve one's own possessions or to acquire those of others.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

That's the secret, hit without getting hit.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.