Quotes About Power

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.

What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.

Quel roman pourtant que ma vie!

Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him...

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.