Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
good
Read Quote

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Men
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. – Kingsley Amis

Category:
Religion

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
Religion

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus

Category:
Religion

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. – G.K. Chesterton

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. – Dawn French

Category:
Dieting

Our musics kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. – Jerry Cantrell

Category:
Music

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang

Category:
Humor

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. – Alfred Kreymborg

Category:
Sky & Clouds