Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

• A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Ideas, Political

  "Journal of International Affairs" by Columbia University. School of International Affairs, (p. 94), 1976.

• A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Giving, Victory

• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Law, Anarchy

• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Revolution, Republican

• In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Two

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

• Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Vegetables, Revolution

• This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Years, Political

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.4, Fireship Press

• Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Liberty, Revolution, Made

• If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Instinct, Obedience

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

• If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 249), 1955.

• Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Names, Empires, Revolution

  "Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

• In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Perseverance, War, Thinking

• I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Pages, Revolution, Resumes

• Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Revolution

• After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Book, Ideas, Pages

• Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Europe, Politics

• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Play, Two

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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