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In transgressing the law of nature the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men for their mutual security; and so he becomes dangerous to mankind, the tie which is to secure them from injury and violence being slighted and broken by him |
Locke, Second Treatise, Page 265 |
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What usually happens is that, while in a state of commotion in which it lacks both counsel and strength, a state becomes subject to a neighbouring and better organized state. Were it not so, a commonwealth might go on for ever passing through these governmental transitions |
Machiavelli, Discourses, Page 109 |
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…for it is always better to let a scoundrel live than to put a godly man to death. The world has plenty of scoundrels anyway ad must continue to have them, but godly men are scarce |
Luther, Concerning Governmental Authority, Page 83 |
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Just as in the case of an individual man disorder results if the intellect follows the senses… so in human government disorder results when someone rules not because he excels in intellect but because he has usurped power by physical force… |
Page 8, Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles |
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For man to know what he should do and not do without any doubt it was necessary for him to be directed in his actions by a law given by God, for it is certain that such law cannot err |
47 Treatise on Law Aquinas |
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Tyrannical law, since it is not in accordance with reason, is not a law in the strict sense, but rather a perversion of law |
48 Treatise on Law Aquinas |
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Perfect virtue, however is found in few men. The Jews were especially prone to cruelty and avarice—the vices that chiefly incline men to tyranny |
Page 59 Treatise on Law Aquinas |
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I maintain, then, it is much easier to hold on to hereditary states, which are accustomed to being governed by the family that now rules them, than it is to hold on to new acquisitions |
Machiavelli, Prince, Page 7 |
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People are by nature inconstant. It is easy to persuade them of something, but it is difficult to stop them from changing their minds. So you have to be prepared for the moment when they no longer believe: Then you have to force them to believe |
Machiavelli, Prince, Page 20 |
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…a ruler needs to have the support of the populace, for otherwise, he has nothing to fall back on in times of adversity |
Machiavelli, Prince, Page 33 |
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Keep your hands off other people’s property; for men are quicker to forget the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance |
Machiavelli, Prince, Page 52 |
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You will find people are so simple-minded and so preoccupied with their immediate concerns that if you set out to deceive hem, you will always find plenty of them who will let themselves be deceived |
Machiavelli, Prince, Page 54 |
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…the more remote from order whose institutions have missed altogether the straight road which leads it to its perfect and true destiny |
Machiavelli, Discourses, Page 112 |
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…in constituting and legislating for a commonwealth it must be taken for granted that all men are wicked and that they will always give vent to the malignity that is in their minds when opportunity offers |
Machiavelli, Discourses, Page 134 |
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Of all men that are praised, those are praised most who have played the chief part in founding a religion. Next come those who have founded either republics or kingdoms |
Machiavelli, Discourses, Page 371 |
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Hence men who in this life normally either suffer great adversity or enjoy great prosperity, deserve neither praise nor blame; for one usually finds that they have been driven either to ruin or to greatness by the prospect of some great advantage which the heavens have held out, whereby they have been given the chance, or have been deprived of the chance, of being able to act virtuously |
Machiavelli, Discourses, I think? |
