Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

Anyone who goes against my decisions, I liquidate him

By terrorising the people, the Taliban have sown deep doubts about the government.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralization have paralyzed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalized murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made effort bitter, labor a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.