"Among those who dislike oppression are many..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”

“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”

“Adversity is the midwife of genius”

“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.”

“It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.”

“Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.”

“Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.”

“The English peace is the peace of the grave.”

“The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.”