5 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Order

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on order

49. A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

90. How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares, 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping people quiet.

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

181. There is neither subordination, nor fear in empty bellies.

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.