TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machiavelli, Niccolo
AU  - Thomson, Ninian Hill
TI  - The Prince
SN  - 9781954839274
PY  - 2021/// (1513)
PB  - Reader's Library Classics
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Philosophy and Theory of the State
KW  - Renaissance
N1  - IB
N2  - The lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from the wolves.  A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils and a lion to drive off wolves.

The modern-day term "Machiavellian" is used to describe the deception, dishonesty and cruelty to meet a goal.  The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli was weitten as a guide for autocrats on how to govern using means that were meant to deceive and manipulate a government's constituency - to the extent of advocating the use of evil for political expediency.

In this classic work, the end justifies the means reigns paramount to Machiavelli's system of government
ER  -