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)]