Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
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Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
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Men are lead by trifles.
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.
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Men are never attached to you by favours.
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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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Power is founded upon opinion.
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
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Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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Vengeance is without foresight.
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Leaders have to be dealers in hope.
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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
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If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.