Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Confusion

Quotes about: Confusion

• One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Passion, Confusion, Understanding

• Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Order

• 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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

• Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art Of War, Men, Confusion

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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