Statskonst Quotes

“It is the mark of a tyrant, indeed an underhand deception, to treat people at large the way that animal trainers customarily treat a wild beast; for their prime concern is to observe what pacifies it or what arouses it, and they provoke or soothe it to suit their own convenience.”
― Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria