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Machiavelli divide and conquer quotes1/17/2024 ![]() Individuals let go of self-awareness and self-control to imitate others - the collective behavior takes over individual judgment. Hitler said: “Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.” The delusional leader used the ‘them’ versus ‘us’ approach as an excuse to invade most European countries - conquerors succeed when they create two sides.ĭe-individuation is a group behavior when people fall prey to this type of leader. However, deceiving tactics work in the short-term - in the long run, people end up separating fiction from reality.Ĭreating a common enemy is the most usual way to divide people - leaders force us to choose between being in favor of or against their crusade. Conquerors are compulsive storytellers - they use every opportunity to feed anger and violence. “One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” - Nicholas Machiavelliĭivisions are an illusion for both the leader and their followers they create a fictional reality. The term Machiavellian became a synonym for facts marked by cunning or bad faith. ![]() He relied upon the art of manipulation to build followers and allies. Nicholas Machiavelli famously said: “Politics have no relations to moral.” The Italian politician and diplomate believed that, for a leader, it’s better to be feared than to be loved. But he wasn’t the first, nor the last, to implement it. The divide your enemy so you can reign approach is attributed to Julius Cesar - he successfully applied it to conquer Gaul twenty-two centuries ago ( no typo). ![]() The Latin phrase “ Divide et impera” is as old as politics and war. Leaders have two choices - to unite or divide. The desire to leave a legacy is why people join a mission. Turn it into a life quest the journey to build something bigger than themselves unites people. Create a shared ambition and inspire people to build it with you. Conquering, winning at-any-cost, is all that matters.Īnother way to lead is by uniting people. Turn it into a life or death situation the sense of urge unleashes unconditional support. Create a mutual enemy and lead a crusade to conquer it. There are two ways to lead people and drive impact. Let none of us exult too soon: the womb is fertile still from which this monster crawled.ĭo not applaud quite so soon, for the womb is fertile still from where this one crawled.Hint: leaders either divide people or unite them The womb is fertile still from which that crawled. Something like that almost governed the world. That’s how the world was going to be run! That was similar to the quatrain Willett translated (1998) from the portion of that that Brecht used in his War Primer (1947): The womb is fertile still from which that crept. (In case you think the battle has been won). That's how the world was going to be run! Learn how to face the facts you tried to shun.Īnd how to act, where once you idly slept. The last four lines of Manheim's version were quoted by a vampire in the final episode of the first series (UK) of Being Human (2008). The womb he crawled from is still going strong. The nations put him where his kind belong.īut don't rejoice too soon at your escape. Therefore we learn how to see and not to gape. ![]() The last three lines are in the credits of the Sam Peckinpah (dir.) film Cross of Iron (1977). The above is the translation first used on Broadway (1963). It was not performed until 1958 (German), 1960 (English). The end of the play, after the violent death of the gangster Ui, modeled after the rise of Hitler.
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