"NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.”
“Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.”
“The stock actor is a stage calamity”
More on Power
“Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.”
“The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.”
“Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.”
More on Authority
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
“Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?”
“He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.”