Quotes About Conquest

They used to be everywhere, Dad. Before we got to them. We took over everything! We deserve to be alone.

I wish I could be an example to you... I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally and emotionally; but I wanted to be sure. You are not an example to me; you could never be, I spat at him. You're a warning.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

YEAH! WHO DIED? WHO CAME BACK? WHO'S YOUR FREAKIN' SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE NOW, BABY? WOOOOOOOO!

Conquer or die.

Leo tried to remember what had happened. He was pretty sure he had defeated Gaia…

SWEEP!' THe Titan grinned with delight and did a victory dance.'Sweep, sweep, sweep!

He had done it. He had taken hold

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?

The Romance of Alexander.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Believers infiltrate the enemy's territory with knowledge and power.

Everyone who searches for power, without exception, searches for battle. Do you fight in order to become more powerful? Or do you want more power so you can fight?

Todos seguían borrachos de proyectos con los reinos de caoba, de canela y de especias que todavía se escondían en las regiones inexploradas, y estaban dispuestos a macerar hasta el polvo a esos millones de criaturas sin nombre, con piel de barro y corazón de arcilla, que Dios había destinado para su servidumbre

Desde el momento en que Colón vio cruzar por el cielo esos pájaros desconocidos y Rodrigo de Triana gritó bajo la noche esa palabra, aquí toda la tierra es el mapa de una ambición: forcejear por las selvas es el oficio de los brazos enguantados de acero, y los que se apropiaron de la tierra de otros no vacilan jamás en verter sangre, por amiga que sea, para sostener ante Dios que la propiedad es sagrada

the Mongol rulers of what became Iran, a few Christian

The blitzkrieg, in short, had been perfected for a sleek, hard-muscled, superbly trained, and passionately motivated army, such as the German General Staff had fashioned during the decades between the wars. It was quite unsuited for a ponderous, top-heavy army of ill-trained soldiers led by timid officers, overseen by inexperienced party ideologues, and sent forth to conquer a country whose terrain consists of practically nothing but natural obstacles to military operations.

Boulton's strategic plan was on schedule. He had discerned an opportunity; had exploited it;* and was soon enough unsatisfied by it. By the end of 1782, he had identified the next conquest for the steam engine, an arena whose potential dwarfed that of the mining industry: wheels.

His dekkan system was not merely preserved by Persia's Arab conquerors but would eventually appear as the model for European feudal vassalage (more because of convergence than shared ancestry).

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,Shrunk to this little measure?

That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.