Machiavelli on Cindy Sheehan

Machiavelli on Cindy Sheehan

 

What's in brackets here are my thoughts on how Machiavelli's "teaching" relates to Cindy Sheehans grief and reaction.

 

Dan

 

[Machiavelli on whose to blame when a person is deceived...]

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[You should've mothered better earlier...]

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on Laziness and Apathy and deceptively on Mass Media, nuclear weapons and Trillion dollar budgets...]

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on Cindy Sheehan... Just sand through the hour glass...]

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on financial dominance...]

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on deception...]

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

 

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on mercy...]

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on Nuclear War, nuclear power for space and Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators...]

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on Human Nature.]

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on Michael Jackson...]

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

 

[Machiavelli on flying jets...]

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[Machiavelli on "disarmament by splattering..."]

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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