拿破仑曾经将宗教视为“阻止穷人谋杀富人的原因”。意思是，如果不惧怕上帝，或者从字面上看我们可能必须付出的地狱 - 我们其余的人只会接受我们想要的东西。
(Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted.)