Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

He who labors with his mind rules over he who labors with his hand

If the [Ugandan President] Yoweri Museveni of 1986 were to meet the Museveni of today they would fight on sight - they would shoot each other.

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

You feel like a criminal. Knowing you can knock somebody out and know you can put somebody in a temporary coma, that's what you want to go for. It shows how strong, how powerful a person can be to be able to do that.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.