Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, War Quotes, Power Quotes

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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