单词 | divide and rule |
释义 | > as lemmasdivide and rule e. divide and rule (occasionally divide and govern) [translating Latin divide et impera (also used)] : a statement of the policy of not allowing subject peoples or factions to make common cause. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [phrase] > divide and rule divide and rule1602 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions iii. 69 According to Machiauels rule of divide & impera. 1609 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes (new ed.) I. §93 For a Prince, that he may haue good successe against either rebels or forraine enemies, it is a sure axiome, Diuide and rule. 1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable 231/1 Divide and Govern. Divide a nation into parties, or set your enemies at loggerheads, and you can have your own way. A maxim of Machiavelli. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 91 Divide and rule—especially with Hebrews. 1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary v. iii. 198 There has really been no need for the Chinese to put their immemorial colonial policy of Divide et impera into practice; nature has done it for them. 1948 B. Stevenson Home Bk. Proverbs (1959) 1014/1 ‘Divide et impera’..was the motto of Philip of Macedon and of Louis XI of France, in dealing with his nobles. It was the traditional motto of Austria. Polybius, Bossuet, and Montesquieu used it, but it is generally ascribed to Machiavelli. 1962 Listener 26 Apr. 718/2 True to their traditional ‘divide and rule’ policy British diplomats tried to deepen the differences between the Kenya African National Union and the Kenya African Democratic Union. < as lemmas |
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