Niccolo Machiavelli, writer of The Prince, categorizes a prince through their capability to bend and change the laws to his advantage, their ability to instill fear through cruelty treatment towards their people, and their aptitude for maintaining the state. ... On page 45 of "The Prince," Machiavelli also claims that "a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty " and Vladimir has certainly taken this advice to heart. ... According to Niccolo Machiavelli, maintaining the state is the key to being a great prince, and thus must be the main priority of the prince because without maintai...

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That action can be whatever the prince determines is necessary to achieve the ends sought. ... He believes that these injure a whole community, while the executions ordered by a prince fall only upon a few individuals. ... While inflicting a little cruelty in the beginning will prevent further actions of similar deviant behavior. As a corollary to this Machiavelli addresses whether a prince should be loved or feared. ... Relying on the premise that the end always justifies the means, Machiavelli concludes that the prince should not swerve from good if possibl...

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