Lajos Kossuth Quotes

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

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.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Force is not a remedy.

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

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

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.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

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.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

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.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.