Emilio Mola Quotes

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

The Fascists kill because they cannot argue.

Either you were opposed to the growth of Fascism and went out to fight against it, or you acquiesced in its crimes and permitted its growth.

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

It does seem to me that the laboring classes were possessed of the Devil. I believe in the free application of rifle balls, grape and canister to mobs.

Government is waging war against the people.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Systematic recourse to violence put forward as the necessary path to liberation has to be condemned as a destructive illusion and one that opens the way to new forms of servitude. One must condemn with equal vigor violence exercised by the powerful against the poor, arbitrary action by the police, and any form of violence established as a system of government.

When an upstart dictator in the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Dictatorship dooms labor. Labor dooms dictatorship.

I have sent you 18,000 enemies of the people.

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.