Quotes About Conquest

The takeover of the Amerindians appears to them as the beginning of the Apocalypse.

The truest conquest must be carried in the mind and not in causing more pain to another living being.

This meant, inevitably, that the victory would have to be implemented in the same way, proceeding by the slow road of love rather than the quick road of sudden conquest. That is part of what the Sermon on the Mount was all about.

I had to laugh at the arrogance of anyone who had ever thought that human beings have conquered the earth.

VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS

Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!

To have ultimate victory, you must be ruthless.

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.

In war, luck is half in everything.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

Madame Montholon having inquired what troops he considered the best, "Those which are victorious, Madame," replied the Emperor.

My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War)

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

There shall be no Alps.

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo.

Tuve ocasión de aprender que el valor no consiste en no tener miedo, sino en ser capaz de vencerlo. He sentido miedo más veces de las que puedo recordar, pero siempre lo he ocultado tras una máscara de audacia. El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo. Jam

When the hanging's done and the embers at the burning stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas.