Pablo Escobar Quotes

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Around him are the riffraff of thick-skinned party leaders. He plays off the half-humans with favours. Forging edict after edict as if they were horseshoes- Shoots some in the forehead, others in the chest, the eye, the groin. Everyday he has an execution -- for our Broadchested Georgian it's like picking raspberries

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

Off with their heads!

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints are passed, the hellishness of war drives us to break with every remaining restraint in order to win. Here is the ultimate tyranny: those who resist aggression are forced to imitate, and perhaps even to exceed, the brutality of the aggressor.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Be wary of great leaders.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.