WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Politics have no relation to morals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ideally, he will be both loved and feared, but Machiavelli believes this is nearly impossible. In order to keep his hold on power and maintain his authority, it is preferable for the ruler to instill fear in people than command affection. People are more moved by the fear of pain than by the sympathy of love.

Detailed explanation-3: -The book advises new rulers on best maintaining their power or even expanding their power. Machiavelli argues that a focus on warfare is important and that rulers should sometimes bend conventional morality or even be cruel to accomplish their goal of defending their state and their own power over it.

Detailed explanation-4: -″’How do you like falling in? “Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.” “How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.” More items