Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

Treat them so that they think that they are like dogs. And if they ever believe that they are not like dogs, then you have lost control over them

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

My whip.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

I got taught respect because if not, somebody's gonna make you respect them.

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Hang those that talk of fear.

With a dog, people are not disciplined. They think that by spoiling a dog the dog is going to love them more. But the dog misbehaves more because they give affection at the wrong time.

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.