Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Young
  • Kindness

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Children
  • Justice
  • Moral

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Without justice you won't have stability.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • You
  • Justice
  • Stability

• Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Justice
  • Role

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Kindness
  • Honey
  • Sting

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Always
  • Mercy

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • Job
  • Alone

• ... then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.

  

  Max Stirner
  • May
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Bible
  • Accommodated
  • Absolute Truth

• What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Power

• Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Justice
  • Kindness
  • Kings