The Life and
Death of King John dealt with Shakespeare's personal interest in a Machiavellian approach to politics.
They overstep and use others without consideration or sensitivity, taking pride,
rather than showing remorse, of their Machiavellian deeds.
Narcissists take credit for successes and blame others for failures“through a mix of shameless self-promotion and
guilt-free, Machiavellian agenda.”.
As I continued to become more successful at the business,
I noticed the stirring of impulses that I can only call Machiavellian.
Machiavellian narcissists have mastered the art of one-uppance
as they try to show their superiority while steamrolling over everyone else's feelings and opinions.
Now, see, this is the kind of Machiavellian thinking, that you really have to--
you know, in my mind, it's a rabbit's warren, this woman's mind.
Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations,
but they can be comparably clueless when it comes to women.
Simply acknowledging that the current zeitgeist in our society is to be Machiavellian, envious, and entitled,
is a call to action to pull against the cultural force of these trends.
Important modern political doctrines which stem from the new Machiavellian realism include Mandeville's influential proposal
that"Private Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits”(the last sentence of his Fable of the Bees), and also the doctrine of a constitutional"separation of powers" in government, first clearly proposed by Montesquieu.