Nader Shah quotes

Nader Shah was a powerful Persian ruler and military leader who became the Shah of Iran and founder of the Afsharid dynasty. His campaigns restored Persian control over large parts of the Middle East and South Asia. He is remembered for his military genius as well as for his often ruthless rule. Here are 3 of his quotes:

No barbarities were left unpractised. The tax imposed was strictly exacted. What numbers destroyed themselves with their own hands. (Nader Shah)

Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?"

Nader Shah

The Persian ruler Nadir Shah, in his invasion of India in 1738, killed some 200,000 people and returned with a huge quantity of booty and a large number of slaves, including a few thousand beautiful girls. Alain Danielou (d. 1994), French scholar of Indian philosophy, religion, history and arts, described Nadir Shah's assault of Delhi as follows: ‘...for a week his soldiers massacred everybody, ransacked everything, and razed the entire countryside, so that the survivors would have nothing to eat. He went back to Iran taking with him precious furniture, works of art, horses, the Kohinoor diamond, the famous Peacock throne, and 150 million rupees in gold.'

Nader Shah