Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes

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.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

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...

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Force is not a remedy.

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

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

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

Our vengeance shall rival Spanish ferocity. Our goodwill is at last exhausted; and, since our oppressors compel us to mortal warfare, they shall disappear from America and our land shall be purged of the monsters that infest it. Our hate shall be inexorable and our war shall be to the death.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

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

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.