Advocates of ground raids seem to think that they are merely an extension of the current campaign of drone attacks on targets in Pakistan's tribal areas, which have caused great resentment and have had very doubtful success.
He was already seeking a way of overcoming nihilism, and his second novel, La Peste (1947; The Plague), is a symbolical account of the fight against an epidemic in Oran by characters whose importance lies less in the (doubtful) success with which they oppose the epidemic than in their determined assertion of human dignity and fraternity.
Many higher-order theorists have attempted to resist the claim that their theory has any such entailment, but with doubtful success (e.g. Gennaro 1996, 2004; Van Gulick 2006).
Still, Rosario Crocetta would do well to heed Machiavelli: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things".
"We have numerous concerns with the clinical development of bapineuzumab, and what we viewed to be underwhelming top-line Phase 2 results make us highly doubtful of success," Mr. Aschoff wrote.
Even some of those trying to change the laws seemed doubtful of success, despite visible leadership from Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam records, who insisted until the end that the laws would be revised.
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success nor dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
He quoted Niccolò Machiavelli in that speech to make a point: There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state.
When I got back to Washington, I thumbed through the book until I found the rambling passage, and this is what it said: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli, in The Prince: "...there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things... Opponents will attack it with the zeal of partisans, whilst the others defend it but feebly".
As Machiavelli wrote 500 years ago in The Prince, "there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to be a leader in the introduction of changes.
