Actually, according to Suetonius, in his section on Caligula in his Vitae Caesarum, what Caligula said was: 'Oderint, dum metuant.', which is translated: 'May they hate me, if only they fear me.' In any case Feenian has misrepresented both the source and the meaning of the quote on which the thread is based, out of his ignorance, or malevolence.