Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

History is a myth men want to believe.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

Force cannot organize anything.In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit by which I mean the civil and religious institutions of a nation. Napoleon Bonaparte.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

The principles of war are the same as those of a siege. Fire must be concentrated on one point, and as soon as the breach is made, the equilibrium is broken and the rest is nothing.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools

I love power like a musician loves music.

I did not usurp the crown; it was in the gutter and I picked it out.

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.

I am for the whites because I am white; I have no other reason, and that one is good.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

Space I can recover. Time, never.

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.