7 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Authority

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on authority

8. 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.

35. A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

138. Popes have committed too many absurdities to create a belief in their infallibility.

147. So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

156. The aristocracy has the advantage of concentrating the power of Government into less dangerous hands than those of the ignorant multitude.

185. 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.

196. We cannot escape from the arbitrariness of the judge, unless we place ourselves under the despotism of the law.