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Machiavellianism   Listen
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Machiavellianism, Machiavelism  n.  The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.






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"Machiavellianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... under the permanent and vindictive attacks of the calumniator." This is the politics of Satan—the evil principle which regulates so many things in this world. The enemies of the Jesuits have formed a list of great names who had become the victims of such atrocious Machiavelism.[47] ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... lucrative of modern times, and nearly the most influential. The names of Taglioni and Elssler are as European, nay, as universal, as those of Wellington and Talleyrand-Metternich or Thiers; and modern statesmanship and modern diplomacy show pale beside the Machiavelism of the coulisses. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various



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