Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

I don't like to see mess.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.