16 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Society

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on society

5. A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

18. My maxim was, la carriere est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

31. What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon.

43. A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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

54. Ah, tenez, vous etes de la merde dans un bas de soie.

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.

94. I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

129. My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.

139. Power is founded on opinion.

142. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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

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

176. The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

184. There is one thing that's not French: for a woman to be able to do what she likes.

189. To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.