Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Truth, Reality, Empathy

• It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Men, Honor

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fickle, Literature, May

• He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Reality, Government, People

• God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

• ...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Mankind, Incredulity

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.19, Knickerbocker Classics

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