But Machiavelli is far more important for other reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Even the brutal Cesare Borgia was, in Machiavelli's eyes, a reformer.    From Wordnik.com.  [What would Machiavelli think of David Cameron?] Reference

Machiavelli is one of the greatest users of the Italian language ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel] Reference

Just like Machiavelli is required reading, it seems Orwell is also nowadays part of the curricula for aspiring leaders-in-training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!] Reference

The notion that the machine has altered human relationships, and that in consequence Machiavelli is out of date, is a very obvious one.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution] Reference

Of course, rulers and governments still dealt with each other in ways that recalled Machiavelli's precepts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

To paraphrase Machiavelli, the palace was 'the state within the state'--a center of family power and patronage.    From Wordnik.com.  [World's Greatest Palaces] Reference

There’s no reason to assume Machiavelli is right in his claim that a prince should be feared rather than loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership] Reference

Cardozo, the most infamous of the trio, called the Machiavelli of the Bench, weakened under investigation and resigned to avoid dismissal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

But it is in considering the achievements of Prince Tony that "Machiavelli" is most critical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

If McGreevey referred to "Machiavelli," landowner Halper was told, then he would know the deal was on.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Affair to Regret] Reference

And for Lord Adonis, the former New Labour minister, here the conduit for the scathing words of "Machiavelli".    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

But until Prospect magazine approached "Machiavelli", no one had thought to seek a review from the eponymous Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

Monica "Machiavelli" is more like it if you ask me … hrrrmpfffff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealbreaker] Reference

There were a few conscripts, but no universal training such as Machiavelli recommended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of the Reformation] Reference

Italian historians, such as Machiavelli and Guicciardini, but he admirably depicts the atmosphere of the period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

↑ Gilbert, "Machiavelli" in Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

People such as Machiavelli, Caterina Sofrza, and Lorenzo de Medici.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neowin.net / All] Reference

Also, remember his Advisor or Conciglieri, José "Machiavelli" Córdova Montoya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever Happened to Salinas?] Reference

Machiavelli, and in exalting abstention to a system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

My pastor is a Prince -- and not the Machiavelli kind, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Somerville: Church Collection: Should Conscientious Catholics Stop Giving?] Reference

He is a Burke without his imagination -- a Machiavelli without his crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

I believe Machiavelli once said that a war which is necessary is also just.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

That's touched off jockeying that is part Machiavelli, part Laurel and Hardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Now, The Office Shuffle] Reference

Machiavelli instructed the prince that to rule entails learning not to be good.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Because It Is Wrong': A Meditation On Torture] Reference

Such idealism in a prince, as Machiavelli pointed out, was useless without power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

Machiavelli, Galileo, and Michel Angiolo (page 249), studded with handsome villas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

I'd say it's a sophisticated nuance engineered by Karl Rove, Bush's resident Machiavelli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: President Sound Bite] Reference

Machiavelli never stooped to dispense mere get-rich-quick advice, and neither does Greene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince Wants A Word With You] Reference

Part Machiavelli, part Svengali and part Dr. Strangelove, Rove is almost too cartoonish to be real.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

Executives were reading Sun-tzu, Machiavelli and Clausewitz for guidance on how to overcome the competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost Of Survival] Reference

He did not study Machiavelli so intensely, -- and he did not return to the spectacles; which last was an excellent sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

After years as Jiang's right-hand man, China's Machiavelli may be more interested in serving himself than another political master.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Heir To Power] Reference

Englishman of an Italian duke and politician, who had been educated in those maxims of policy which were generalized by Machiavelli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference