Quotes About Conquest

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

No wonder man was always out to conquer Nature, Anna thought. He can't bear it that she doesn't love him, or even hate him. She simply doesn't give a damn.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

This was what Napoleon had never understood

Caesar had had trouble with the currents off the English coast. Napoleon would too.

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags, and more than thirty generals.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags,

It was everything Napoleon could have wished for, everything he had ever wanted,

Empires are built with broken bones and rivers of blood.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced no industrial revolutions. Two -- even more crucial -- slaves do not reproduce their own numbers. As Rome's wars of conquest ended, the slave population began to shrink, leading to a shortage of agricultural laborers by 200 A.D.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Not only did the Apaches survive the Spanish attacks, but amazingly, the attacks served to make them even stronger. When the Spanish attacked them, the Apaches became even more decentralized and even more difficult to conquer. When the Spanish destroyed their villages, the Apaches might have surrendered if the villages had been crucial to their society. But they weren't. Instead, the Apaches abandoned their old houses and became nomads. (Try to catch us now.)

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence.

According to the historian Arrian who reported the encounter, the ascetics beat their feet on the ground as Alexander passed them. When asked about the gesture, they said that Alexander occupied, despite his conquests, no more ground than that covered by the soles of his two feet. Like everyone else, he, too, was mortal, 'except that you are ambitious and reckless, traversing such a vast span of land, so remote from your home, enduring troubles and inflicting them upon others'.4

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.