Mason Lance

“One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

“Because fear and ove can hardly co exist together,if we must chose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli