In reading Machiavelli’s The Prince, one would gather many insights into the sort of moves a ruler should make and into the mind of Machiavelli. Machiavelli has many topics and gives a lot of advice, but some of his advice is more drastic than others. For instance, Machiavelli states that cruelty should be pursued in occasional acts of severity as needed to put a message out to the public. It is used to set …showed first 75 words of 948 total…

…showed last 75 words of 948 total…being cruel in order to preserve safety in a ruler’s domain. He stresses that smaller acts of severity be inflicted before things become drastic for a crime problem. He sets a good point that it is safer to be feared than loved and that cruelty preserves fear. In turn he basically means that in order to preserve a good, safe kingdom a ruler must be cruel, and he must gain fear from his subjects.