Typical statements Realism
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The standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel.
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The strong do what they have the power to do, and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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If we were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness, whereas
your hatred is evidence of our power.
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It is a general and necessary law of nature to rule whatever one can.
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If one follows one’s self-interest one wants to be safe whereas the path of justice and honor involves one
in danger.
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[Idealists] believe that what they like doing is honorable and what suits their interests is just.
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What is looked for is a positive preponderance of power in action.
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It is much safer to be feared than to be loved, if one must choose.
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Love depends on the subjects but the prince has it in his own hands to create fear.
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How we live is so far removed from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done
rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. A man striving
in every way to be good will meet his ruin among the great number who are not good.
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[Those governing] should have no concern about incurring the infamy of such vices without which the
preservation of the state would be difficult.
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Out of civil states there is always war of every one against every one.
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To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent: that nothing can be unjust. Where the
is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice.
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