"The ends justifies the means...." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.”

“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”

“When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.”

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

“But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.”

“Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease”

“All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.”

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”