Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Authority
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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.
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A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.
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Popes have committed too many absurdities to create a belief in their infallibility.
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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The aristocracy has the advantage of concentrating the power of Government into less dangerous hands than those of the ignorant multitude.
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They think I am stern, even hardhearted. So much the better- this makes it unnecessary for me to justify my reputation. My firmness is taken for callousness. I shall not complain, since this notion is responsible for the good order that is prevailing, so that there is nothing that needs to be repressed.
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We cannot escape from the arbitrariness of the judge, unless we place ourselves under the despotism of the law.