Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Only force would produce social change.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Revolution, not elections!

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

The only way a revolution can triumph is through the force of arms.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.