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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Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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