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Revolution Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
- 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…
- Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
- Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
- In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
- 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…
- In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
- Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
- Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
- 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…
- 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…
- If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
- 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.…
- Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
- 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…
- Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
- Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets
More Revolution Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams