Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Force is not a remedy.

Might was the measure of right.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.