11 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Morality

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on morality

22. Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

25. Among so many conflicting ideas an so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

36. A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

39. Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

52. A true man hates no one.

68. Cruelty can only be justified by necessity.

85. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him.

165. The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

190. To seduce a wife from her husband, or a son from his father, are odious acts, unworthy of civilised nations.

194. War is the business of barbarians.

199. We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest.