"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

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"You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

Brad Pitt, American Actor

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"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."

Martin Feldstein, American Economist

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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

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"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

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"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

Francis Maude, British Politician

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"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."

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"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."

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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."

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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."

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"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

"You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."

"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

Explore more quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."

"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."

"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."