Niccolo Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli was an aristocrat who was put in a prison because people thought he committed crime against the government. While he was in prison he had to support himself by being a writer. Machiavelli wrote about how a prince, or ruler, must maintain his power. Machiavelli’s views revolved around the ideas that one must do anything within his power to keep the influence and power that he had attained. For him, …showed first 75 words of 722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 722 total…believe that so much control by one person will ultimately lead to war and the demise of the society. How can one person with so much power and latitude in decision making possibly benefit the society? In fact, they are not even benefiting themselves in that they are the ones who ultimately stand to lose when the people in the society realize that they are being taken advantages of for the good of one person.