• Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

    Max Lerner: Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.
    Max Lerner (1992). “Ideas for the Ice Age: Studies in a Revolutionary Era”, p.96, Transaction Publishers