Basically he was about ruthlessness for the good of humanity.
Sounds like Machiavelli:
Hence we may learn the lesson that on seizing a state, the usurper should make haste to inflict what injuries he must, at a stroke, that he may not have to renew them daily, but be enabled by their discontinuance to reassure mens minds, and afterwards win them over by benefits.
Sounds like Machiavelli:
The Prince, Chapter 8