leadership Quotes

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the... ...

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

People are more easily influenced by fear than by respect.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule... ...

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy... ...

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to... ...