Strict Governance Quotes

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

The city of Peking [Beijing] is a novel site for a European. He will not weary of admiring the manner in which the nearly 3 million people gathered within its vast enclosure are ruled by the police as schoolchildren by their masters. People coming and going fill streets wider than the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. The crowd is beyond belief, yet peace reigns everywhere.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.