Religion Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte