Caligula Quotes

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

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 on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

We would rather be feared than respected.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

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.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.