Machiavelli adamantly states, "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands". ... The opinion's Machiavelli expressed in "The Prince", are both understandable and disagreeable. ...
Totalitarianism differs from dictatorship or tyranny in its mobilization of political participation, its quest for the complete restructuring of both the individual and society, and its aim for unlimited, not just political, control. ... In the novel emotions cannot be freely expressed because the propaganda directs the feelings the people feel. ...
In The Prince, Machiavelli stressed the need for order and loyalty, but his arguments were not aimed at the citizens of these lands, but at the monarchy of the time, the de' Medici family. ... According to Locke's design for an efficient and just political system, he uses Hobbes' idea of the state of nature coupled with a need for rationality, and as Luther expressed, reason. ...
