Quote #153
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Such work as mine is not done twice in a century. I saved the Revolution as it lay dying, I have cleansed it of its crimes and have held it…
- The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
- Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
- The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
- Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time …
- The aristocracy has the advantage of concentrating the power of Government into less dangerous hands than those of the ignorant multitude.
- Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
- The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.