Boris Yeltsin Quotes

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

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

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

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

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 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.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

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...

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

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.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Might was the measure of right.

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

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

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.