Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Nature
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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good
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age. – Henry Rollins

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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those cant. – Frances OGrady

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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative. – Albert Camus

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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond

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The larger a mans roof, the more snow it collects. – Proverb

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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution. – Sandra Day OConnor

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