Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

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

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

The art of power often involves brutality — and other offenses too.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

The most monstrous men a plea of power in the history of the world

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Feelings of marginalization and cries of separation are symptomatic of countries where rulers find power sweet and intoxicating, where power is coveted, and when acquired, painstakingly guarded.

Most governments are designed for the purposes of oppression and personal ambition.

It was not the year of union rather the year of division and force and oppression and violence. The imamate became like the kingdom of Chosroes and the caliphate like the tyranny of Caesar.

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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