10 wise quotes from the world's greatest villains

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Serial killers, dictators, sectarians - we are used to judging them by their actions. Terrible deeds. But that doesn't mean the villains have little to learn. Most of them were intelligent and educated people, albeit very cruel. Here are ten inspiring phrases from ten great villains. Will you be able to abstract from their atrocities and adopt their wise thoughts?

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

You must first become a rower, and then control the steering wheel.

Sulla went down in history as a heartless dictator, organizer of brutal proscriptions. However, he started his career as a quaestor. If you strive to become a good manager, you must have a good understanding of the specifics of the work of your team, and it is better if you yourself make your way from “rower” to “helmsman”.

Oliver Cromwell

The one who stops striving to be better stops being good.

Striving for excellence is one of the keys to success. Nowadays, the idea is popular that perfectionism makes people unhappy, but at the same time, doesn't it give an impetus to development? The only pity is that for the English commander and revolutionary "to be better" meant to hold power in their hands and cruelly deal with the "disobedient" during the Irish uprising of 1641.

Attila

It takes far less courage to criticize others' decisions than it does to defend your own.

The leader of the Hun tribe, who killed his brother and enslaved half of Europe, was damn right to say that it is easier to criticize than to create. Many people may not like your decisions, someone may even turn their backs on you, but if you are sure of their correctness, have the courage to defend your opinion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Impossible" is a word from the dictionary of fools.

Remember these words of Bonaparte whenever you want to give up, say "It's impossible" and back down. The French commander won hundreds of military victories, and there was no word "impossible" for him until he was in Russia.

Charles Manson

I am the king in my kingdom, even if it is the kingdom of cesspools.

American killer maniac Charles Manson was the undisputed "king" in his "Family". However, his words also make sense: whatever your environment, try to be the best of the best in it.

Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon, the effect of which depends on who holds it in their hands, who they want to hit with this weapon.

You can treat Joseph Vissarionovich in different ways: for some, he is a strong politician who built a great power, for others, a fanatic who killed thousands of innocent people.

But wisdom cannot be denied to him. Your knowledge, your education is really your weapon. And it only depends on you what kind of "war" you win.

Jim Jones

A person must take risks at least once a day, otherwise he will never know that he is lucky.

How often do you make atypical decisions for yourself? Most live according to a scenario once worked out and are afraid to change something in their lives. But risk sometimes leads to amazing, happy changes.

Unfortunately, for the man who uttered these wise words - James Warren, better known as Jim Jones - the risk meant getting 909 people (including 270 children) to drink Flavor Aid.

Benito Mussolini

Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

The "Duce of Fascism" undoubtedly considered himself a lion until he started running and finished his journey on the outskirts of the village of Mezzegra. However, don't let yourself be a gray mouse, be a leader and live like the king of nature.

Adolf Gitler

I chose my path - follow it to the end.

The path of the "great Fuehrer" brought him to the Fuehrerbunker, where he committed suicide. But, nevertheless, he went the path that he chose to the end.

Many people today lack confidence in themselves and their ideas. Hitler was in prison, his party was on the verge of collapse, but this did not prevent him from creating a powerful military-political machine.

Ted Bundy

Countless millions who have walked the Earth before us have experienced the same, life is simply our shared experience.

It is unlikely that you would agree to share Theodore Bundy's "experience" if you learned that there are more than 25 people on his hands (the exact number of victims is unknown, according to some sources - about 100). However, he is right - millions of people lived on Earth, and they all lived about the same life as you. Never ask yourself "Why me?" - you are neither the first nor you the last one who was fired, who is sick and whose loved ones die.