About This Quote
The quote from Napoleon contradicts the idea that “to oppose something is to maintain it.” In other words, being against something means you are maintaining it. This quote says that you must go somewhere else to find something else that will be better than what you oppose. You can’t fight everything, or even anything. If you spend your life fighting everything, you have no time to do anything. If you spend your life being opposed to things, you have no time to do anything good.
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