Quotes About Conquest

You're only great if you win. I mean, Alexander wasn't Alexander the Mediocre or Alexander the Average. He was Alexander the Great, and there's a reason for it.

At the end of the day, winning is always rewarded.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

I've beaten Anderson twice, then Lyoto Machida and now Belfort. I'll be proud to have taken down three all-time legends in a row.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Action conquers fear.

In tenth and last place comes the conquest of the myth of the rapture of the cognitive person in recent academic research. Bruno Latour is the most important name here. He has also raised subversive demands in political theory for the reinclusion of experts. From

External war often played an important role in increasing or sustaining cooperation among the elites, as well as cooperation between the elites, the state, and sometimes even commoners. During integrative phases, governments in collaboration with the elites often used external war to bring about periods of national consolidation. Additionally, successful wars of conquest yielded abundant rewards to be shared between the state and the elites.

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?

with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power

As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

In the 1930s the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, "Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things."2

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not'.

A loucura é um país onde não entra quem quer. Tudo se conquista. Em todo o caso, ele, ele entrara como um senhor, soltando as amarras e as âncoras com o brio de um capitão que afunda o navio a pique, sozinho na proa.

Nh? Napoleon ?ã nói, chi?n tranh v?n d? r?t ?áng s?, cho nên nó nên ???c thúc ??y càng máu tanh càng t?t ?? ch?m d?t nhanh nh?t có th?.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Once you win, you get used to winning, and that's not a bad thing.

The WBC title belongs to me.

There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act—a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.

Because it is there