Niccolò Machiavelli

untries. In other words, we have come to witness the rise of unscrupulous and barbaric behaviour in foreign policy that is worthy of the teachings of Machiavelli himself.

and inclusive understanding of power. We are inspired by the observation of Guicciardini, the politically more successful Florentine contemporary of Machiavelli: “Among men, hope is normally more powerful than fear”.

tiny, and we struggled to master the future. The change in the future is first heard in the writings of that first theorist of diplomacy, the cunning Machiavelli. In The Prince, he wrote that a ruler must learn to profit from chance, or rather turn chance to his favour. In a typically violent metaphor, he tell

arrangements that differ in scope and intensity and that are superimposed upon the system of State borders. The modern theory of the State forged by Machiavelli and Bodin, the concept of the State as an absolute power that excludes any other power, is today fading. For more than 20 years States have recognize

Viet Nam, and it only serves Viet Nam's ideological, strategic, economic and expansionist interests. We are confident that, being aware of Viet Nam's machiavellian subterfuge, all peace- and justice-loving countries whose representatives are present here in this Assembly, will not fail to continue to grant the

es as the only way of achieving the degree of development of the industrialized countries. The fact that my country has not yet fallen victim to this Machiavellian machination is due to the great respect it has for the honour and dignity of a sovereign and proud country. The biased statements in this connectio

curity. Honesty and purity of intent are important not only in relations among human beings, but also in international politics. The prescriptions of Machiavelli, while they might have been deemed admissible in the distant past, hardly correspond to the notions of rules of conduct on the threshold of the third

We support the struggle of the peoples of Angola and Mozambique against the aggression and Machiavellian manoeuvres, the di- vide-and-rule tactics, of the racist administration of South Africa. 222. The Lao people fully supports the struggle of the Afg

ces intervene, both overtly and covertly? How much longer must the peoples of the Indo-Chinese peninsula endure warfare, economic deprivation and the Machiavellian intrigues of those who use them cynically to continue their own proxy wars? How much longer must the nations of Central America and the Caribbean e

e-old ties, is a matter of serious concern to us. My country once again makes a solemn appeal to those two countries, whose quarrel is furthering the Machiavellian purposes of international imperialism, to begin negotiations to reach a just and lasting peace to the honour of the peoples of Iran and Iraq. The p

f South Africa. It is high time that the authors of the United Nations plan for the settlement of the Namibian problem reacted more forcefully to the Machiavellian policies of Pretoria, which wishes to keep Namibia indefinitely dependent on South Africa. The Namibian people, Africa, will never accept a constit

the United Nations? How can one interpret the repeated dilatory maneuvers of that regime? 264. The only answer to all those questions resides in the Machiavellian designs of international imperialism to protect the racist regime of South Africa by blocking the adoption of energetic measures such as the mandat

r, massacres and declarations of good intentions all alternate at a frightening rate, confusing us all, or trying to do so. 176. In the face of these Machiavellian manoeuvres our concern remains, and peaceful independence becomes increasingly unsure. In any event no form of Independence is acceptable for that

These are Machiavellian manifestations of a challenge to freedom, the negation of the development of peoples. Every year our conscience leads us to adopt resolutions on se

l implements and more than a million of our beasts of burden, oxen and buffaloes, which are part of our livestock. It is because of this criminal and Machiavellian policy of the Hanoi authorities that our people suffer so gravely today from famine. Already more than half a million of our fellow citizens—and es

the same strategy, set up in order to lull the international community and demobilize the liberation movements. We shall never stop denouncing these Machiavellian manoeuvres and stating that only the courageous and resolute armed struggle will free the peoples of those two Territories. Of course a peaceful se

ialist Powers, to stifle and eliminate Palestinian resistance, makes it necessary for this Organization to remain vigilant in order to thwart all the Machiavellian delaying tactics and the attempts at division cynically carried out by imperialism so that the Geneva Peace Conference on the Middle East will not

However, if we look more closely, this rather brusque change barely conceals the Machiavellian intention of imperialism to unleash against our people a new type of aggression which in every respect is similar to the one which many years ago i

events, obstinately try to maintain under their ignominious yoke 20 million African blacks through the insidious, cunning and diabolic scheme of the Machiavellian policy of "bantustanization" -a clumsy trap aimed at making it impossible to achieve majority rule and hence to enable the majority to decide their

ist Government of South Africa. 84. In Namibia, the proponents of apartheid continue to disregard the resolutions of our Organization by applying the Machiavellian plan of bantustanization, which is a constant source of concern to my Government.

ore the eyes of the international community, to guarantee the independence and integrity of its colonies and that there will be no resort to habitual Machiavellian maneuvers which are so familiar to us as the doings of neocolonialism. 47. As I have said before, we view with pleasure the attitude adopted by the

All the peoples of the world who love peace and justice must destroy that Machiavellian plan, which is a genuine conspiracy against the unity of the Angolan people and the territorial integrity of that vast country. 183. We hope that P

s in view, by the rightist leaders of the so-called Christian Democratic Party and above all by their main leader, ex-President Eduardo Frei, who, as Machiavelli might have said, combines the cunning of the fox, the treachery of the panther and the appetite of the hyena. Sometimes disguised, sometimes openly b

ounds the crimes perpetrated by American imperialism and its by-products in Viet-Nam, in Cambodia, in Laos, all these constitute eloquent examples of Machiavellian machinations which each of us has a duty to unmask and to denounce. 233. During the twenty-fifth anniversary of our Organization, with its accompan

faith, indomitable courage, clairvoyance, lucidity, political wisdom and high moral virtues have made it possible for our people to frustrate all the Machiavellian plans hatched by the imperialists and to make our Republic a bastion of the anti-imperialist front in Africa. 213. Since 22 November 1970 the peopl

sions of sympathy upon the death of our leader, Dr. Francois Duvalier, who had, for 14 years, directed the destiny of our nation. 32. In spite of the Machiavellian calculations of those who expected to see the first independent black republic of the world founder in civil war and subsequently constitute a thre

All those diabolical and Machiavellian plans being hatched by imperialism are designed to curb and jeopardize the economic and social development of Guinea, but they are all doomed to fa

nd expression in resisting artificial dissension and the material and moral obstacles set up by those who tried to rule our country by the well-known Machiavellian method of 'divide and rule'. We declare that we believe in the unity of our nation. The Arab nation was always characterized by the unity of langua

e United States war effort in any way. 263. The people of Congo (Brazzaville), like all peoples who love peace and justice, once again condemns these Machiavellian designs whose object is to prolong the United States military presence in South Viet-Nam, and to gain time to reinforce the army and bolster up the

way, and with it, the world will fall into uncertainty and chaos. We believe that there is still time to save future generations from this fate. Like Machiavelli, we believe that, if history is a matter of chance, a raging river that uproots everything in its path, it is nevertheless true that chance governs o

eply convinced of the necessity and the inevitability of ejecting the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek. 79. Nevertheless, some representatives with Machiavellian guile have advocated double representation, the People’s Republic of China and the puppets of Formosa. What would happen if we proposed to those wh

between political or State entities or entities which inevitably become such. 14. Who will maintain, unless he be naive or what is worse, completely Machiavellian, that freedom prevails amidst the lamentations of the enslaved peoples in Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea (Bissau) or t

ld have lightened the agenda for the present session, to our great satisfaction. But alas, here we are today still absorbed in this problem which the Machiavellian will of certain Powers renders difficult and interminable. 115. My Government, like so many others, remains convinced that in our time colonial adv

still under the colonial yoke. Indeed, in certain regions the forces of evil are forming alliances and consolidating their positions to achieve their Machiavellian plans for reconquest. 16. Thus the situation in the Territories under Portuguese domination remains disturbing. In Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (B

ranco, in a recent speech defined the governing lines of our foreign policy as follows: "We should not shape our attitudes on the basis of a homespun Machiavellism or on a policy of extortion.

oceanic communication. A powerful and imperialistic United Kingdom confronted a weak Central America, which had only recently become independent. Its Machiavellianism was carried to the extreme of intriguing against the unity of the Central American Republic, since that made it easier to seize its different pa

nces, because they are determined to play no longer into the hands of those who would divide Africa and still less to be the subject of the greed and Machiavellian schemes of those who would replace direct colonialism, which our peoples have fought, by disguised forms which entail no less indignity and subject

States Department of State. 175. The bad faith and perfidiousness of the United States Government have been clearly revealed by its opportunistic and Machiavellian double policy. The United States is mistaken, however, if it thinks that there can be a climate of peace in the world and a policy of war against C

specially the permanent members, will pull together in carrying out their responsibilities towards the Congo and refrain from using the situation for Machiavellian purposes in disregard of the future well-being of this unfortunate country.

all its efforts to find a way of ending the war and establishing peace on the basis of respect for its rights and national dignity. Nothing, however Machiavellian or seductive, can shake the solidarity of the Maghreb. 223. At two particularly critical moments in its history, North Africa's inescapable need fo

rikaans, but the party that is working for the preservation of the whites in South Africa." 59. What is clear and unmistakable is that Mr. Verwoerd's Machiavellism is now quite unambiguous: genocide has been officially announced as the programme of the South African National Party. 60. We may wager that the Re

sentative’s sarcastic remark that we were not accustomed to the fair play of the Assembly, the reason for that remark being that we had denounced the Machiavellian schemes to impose on us a sponsorship which would assuredly have undermined our policy of genuine national independence. 3. I shall merely point ou

r With diabolical skill, thereby reaping immense moral and material benefits. That view attributes to the small nations truly remarkable qualities of Machiavellianism, duplicity and irresponsibility! Cambodia, which is neutral, is too well acquainted, by experience, with the disastrous consequences of rivalry

nd expression in resisting artificial dissension and the material and moral obstacles set up by those who tried to rule our country by the well known Machiavellian method of “divide and rule”. We declare that we believe in the unity of our nation. The Arab nation was always characterized by the unity of langua

e to flee. The Pathet Lao had never wanted such integration, which would have deprived it of the military support it needed in order to carry out its Machiavellian plan. It was in pursuance of this plan that it had established stocks of arms in the forest and turned over to the Royal Government arms to a quant

ereignty! 15. So we have come to a wall. We must choose: either we have retreat, the Charter torn to shreds by admitted violence and aggression or by Machiavellian sapping of the principles which are the basis of our liberties, our dignity and our moral health; or we have reasoned collaboration, withdrawal of

de of the question. What was even less tolerable was the interference of the former Company in our internal affairs, its underhand manoeuvres and its machiavellian intrigues to keep us in a constant state of dependence and thus better exploit us. 109. What country valuing its independence and dignity could tol

ajk case in Hungary, had been instituted. Those trials would take a major place in the history of international provocation, if only by reason of the Machiavellian ingenuity of the accusations against Yugoslavia. Brazenly, without the least concern for verisimilitude or any attempt to disguise self-evident con