Charlatans Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “A general must be a charlatan.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charlatans
“General" stands here for the individual who goes into action, whether freely or forcedly. Since anarchy offers him an especially favorable charge, this type… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“It is often written that, during his presidency, the General was not a politician. Of course, he was a great politician in large part… — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general, people think… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image