Quotes About Conquest

The suffering of the conquered and colonized people appears as a necessary sacrifice and the inevitable process of modernization. This logic has been applied from the conquest of America until the Gulf War, and its victims are as diverse as indigenous Americans and Iraqi Civilians. Enriqué Dussel, The Invention of the Americas

the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

Archbishop: "God is with us!"William the Great : "Bishop, if God is with us, then he is not with them, congratulations!We are victorious!

My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Whatever goal you set for yourself, conquer it.

Es cierto que nuestra desigualdad empieza cuando aquellos conquistadores se quedan con todo porque son distintos: que su título para mantener el poder era esa diferencia, esa desigualdad.

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

Alexander the Great is well-known as a larger-than-life king. It turns out that he was also a larger-than-life reader.

In Sallust's view, the moral fibre of Roman culture had been destroyed by the city's success and by the wealth, greed and lust for power that had followed its conquest of the Mediterranean and the crushing of all its serious rivals. The crucial moment came eighty-three years before the war against Catiline, when in 146 BCE Roman armies finally destroyed Carthage, Hannibal's home base on the north coast of Africa.

Augusto convirtió explícitamente la conquista global —y una visión territorial « compacta» de un imperio centrado en Roma, en vez del viejo mosaico de Estados obedientes— en la razón de su gobierno.

There was one obligation that the Romans imposed on all those who came under their control: namely, to provide troops for the Roman armies.

Who could be so indifferent or so idle that they did not want to find out how, and under what kind of political organisation, almost the whole of the inhabited world was conquered and fell under the sole power of the Romans in less than fifty-three years, something previously unparalleled?' Who indeed?

Para conseguir su imperio, los romanos no aplastaron brutalmente a pueblos inocentes que se ocupaban de sus propios asuntos en pacífica armonía hasta que las legiones aparecieron en el horizonte

Roman military expansion drove Roman sophistication.

the simple shorthand 'Roman conquest' can obscure a wide range of perspectives, motivations and aspirations on every side of the encounter.

the success (or failure) of armies serving overseas had direct consequences on the home front; the political ambitions of men like Pompey and Caesar lay behind some of the wars of conquest; there was never any clear divide between the military and political roles of the Roman elite.