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Religion Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- All religions have been made by men.
- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
- I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and…
- Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet…
- The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all
- How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,…
- Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come…
- 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…
- A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.
- The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
- Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
- You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
- For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with…
- I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they…
- Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich
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