Quotes About Conquest

You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.

But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 — James Parker, September 11, 1777

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.

W ?yciu interesowa?y go przede wszystkim mi?osne podboje, dybanie na niewie?ci? cnot? i jej niszczenie.

By juxtaposing the two contrasting images, John has forged a new symbol of conquest by sacrificial death.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Pliny considered the water people and he decided they were not worth the bother of conquering. Fish, he wrote, was all they had.1 Seven centuries later opinions had not much changed. Radbodo, Bishop of Utrecht, was most uncharitable about the Frisians, the people of these marshes: he wrote that they lived in water like fish and they rarely went anywhere except by boat. They were also crude, barbarous and remote: sodden provincials.

Our search begins in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. 'Chichi' is one of the market towns in the highlands of the Quiche Maya. Chichi itself was a Mayan settlement before the Spanish Conquest; its two

The Koran calls upon all Muslims to convert or conquer unbelievers. For those who take the Koran seriously, there is no room for moderation or tolerance.

Se habla de supermercados del sexo, que tienen un catálogo bastante completo de su oferta porno; pero les falta lo esencial. Y es que el objetivo mayoritario de la búsqueda sexual no es el placer, sino la gratificación narcisista, el homenaje que una pareja deseable rinde a la propia perfección erótica. [...] la meta que se persigue [...] es la embriaguez narcisista de la conquista.

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897

Then he'd given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.

K2 had been climbed, not conquered.

Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.

Rise and demand; you are a burning flame. You are sure to conquer there where the final horizon Becomes a drop of blood, a drop of life, Where you will carry the universe on your shoulders, Where the universe will bear your hope.

Ya tengo un objetivo, una finalidad en esta vida —se decía—, y es conquistar a esta muchacha o que ella me conquiste. Y es lo mismo. En amor lo mismo da vencer que ser vencido.

Não sei se sou eu que vencerei as ilhas, ou elas que me vencerão a mim.

Los Cuatro Jinetes ya cabalgan por el mundo. Oscureceremos el sol, haremos sangrar a la luna y apagaremos las estrellas.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

il n'est rien de si doux que de triompher de la résistance d'une belle personne.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation.

All began in the name of Civilisation, Christianity, Commerce and then Colonisation.

Julius conquered the minds and Jesus conquered the hearts during his time. Both of them are still famous until today.