Geert Wilders Quotes

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

The Fascists kill because they cannot argue.

You have your pens, Gentlemen, and I have my bayonets. You write with one and I will put the other to work.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Force is not a remedy.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

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

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

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

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

.. jack-booted government thugs.

A union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets … has no charm for me.

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...

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Terrorism and its executioners have their own agenda, entirely independent of the popular will, of democratic considerations or institutions, or of the aspirations and desires of the community they claim to represent. They are defeated, not by the operation of some mystical force called ‘popular will’, but by the force of arms. Their activities are not some convenient substitute for the ballot box; they are an absolute rejection of every value integral to democracy.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.