Ruthless Leader Quotes

… an Attila educated by Machiavelli

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.

The man is a tyrant and he killed lots of people .

Putin is like Al Capone.

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.