Do you know, Fontanes, what most amazes me in the world?  The inability of force to maintain anything at all.  There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind.  In the long run, the sword is always defeated by the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) French emperor, military leader

(Attributed)

In Albert Camus, November 1939, Notebooks: 1935-1942 [tr. Thody (1963)]