“One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.” Politics have no relation to morals. If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. “It is necessary to whoever disposes a republic and orders laws in it to presuppose that all men are bad, and that they always have to use the malignity of their spirit whenever they have a free opportunity for it.” Machiavelli goes further to say that “there was never any orderer of extraordinary laws for a people who did not have recourse to God, because otherwise they would not have been accepted.” I am not sure if any of our demagogues and politicians have read Niccolò Machiavelli but looking at their conduct, one can safely say that they do follow his principles unknowingly.When the “great men” of society want to impose new laws and orders that won’t be understood or accepted they can use God as a means of giving their new and “extraordinary” laws legitimacy. Men do not so easily believe the logic of other men. They do however, trust the logic of an omnipotent and wiser God. Similarly, when the demagogues of this country talk about hunger that they have never known, poverty that they have never seen, exasperation that they have never experienced, inequality that they have always taken advantage of and the will of the people that they give not the minusculest importance to- as the primo uno problems driving them to do what they do, I can only think to myself: bro! who are you kidding.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 08:44:44 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015