Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo Quotes

On their side the workers had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

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

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

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

You can’t undo a thousand years of history by sending military troops into a country.

Remember that this White house is populated with … control freaks.