Lie: it’s a plan
October 21, 2003 at 9:11 pm | In yulelogStories | 2 CommentsToday my daughter announced finding the credo George Bush lives by. It’s reprinted in her socials studies textbook, Michael Cranny’s Pathways; Civilizations Through Time, p.223:
So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and should not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage…. If all men were good, this precept [rule] would not be good; but because men are wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need not keep your word to them…. One must know how to be a great liar and deceiver.
- Nicolo Machiavelli, b.1469, as per his treatise, The Prince.
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- YuleHeibel: @hummingbird604 That's very sweet (& generous), thx. But I'm at a dead-end here, either I leave or get a job bagging groceries at Safeway.
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