Quotes About Conquest

Greece, once conquered, conquered her savage victor and brought culture into the rough land of Latium' (better in Latin: 'Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio').

Graecia capta ferum uictorem cepit. 'Fierce Rome', that is, 'had been captured by captive Greece.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.

Vini, Vici, Vidi (I came, I saw, I conquered). - Julius Caesar

The men who had brought us whiskey and the smallpox had come with the cross in one hand and the gun in the other.

treaty of Campo Formio was signed in 1797, Napoleon had won fourteen battles, and had subjugated Italy.

from the vast plains lying between Russia and China there had poured into Europe a terrible race of beings called Huns. They seemed more like demons than men. Insensible alike to fear, to hunger, thirst, or cold, they appeased their ferocious appetites upon wild roots and raw meat.

ago, pirates raided Spanish treasure

Conquer your fears before they conquer you.

Courage is the genius behind victory.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

Here, where a thousand captains swore grand conquest… tall grass their monument

And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

We weren't there to take over, we were there, in our own minds, to discover . And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;

All the enemies of Christ shall be made his footstool, either by humble submission and entire subjection to his will casting themselves down at his feet, or by utter destruction;

In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.

Language is a surpassing, operated by the subject on significations he has laid down, stimulated by the use made of words around him. Language is an act of transcending. Thus, we cannot consider it to simply be a container of thought; we must see in it an instrument of conquest of self through contact with others.

The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

But English was at the heart of it. As far as we know, Richard II is the first recorded example of a monarch using only English since the Conquest. And he reached for it when he was within a few minutes of seeing his kingdom transformed utterly.

Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.