Quotes About Conquest

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.

A country road, a gravel road, is a sign of civilization, sure, but it's just a farm, an easy conquest. Iron means a stronghold, people who can defend what's theirs.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.-Hobbes

I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

Great faith is the product of great fights.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

Conquer fear and you have conquered all.

Without suffering there is no struggle, without struggle no victory, without victory no crown." Maria van Beethoven (Beethoven's mom)

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Like Alexander the Great and Caesar, I'm out to conquer the world. But first I have to stop at Walmart and pick up some supplies.