Quotes About Conquest

as regards ownership the right of the first occupier is uncertain and badly founded. The right of conquest, on the other hand, rests on more solid foundations. It is the only right that receives respect since it is the only one that makes itself respected.

Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität. Nach ihrer Eroberung strebe ich, sicher, sie nicht zu erreichen, zu unbekümmert jedoch um meinen Tod, um nicht zumindest die Freuden eines solchen Besitzes abzuwägen.

Tú puedes elegir hoy mismo, como lo hace tu cerebro, reconocer cuáles son las áreas muertas de tu carácter y determinar que, a partir de hoy, cueste lo que cueste y lleve el tiempo que lleve, vas a encontrar una nueva ruta para llegar a tus metas. Tú puedes hacerlo. Fuiste creado para conquistar la tierra, no para ser arrasado por tus circunstancias.

Alexander's mere name and the fame of his feats raised rulers and realms across virtually the whole world. And those who kept control of even the slightest slice of his huge heritage were reckoned most renowned.

Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

Exterior: the jungle. Interior: Dark night of the white man's soul.

Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.

When I'm in a ring, I'm there to hurt you. That's the objective in a fight. Your wellbeing is not my concern.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

Nothing tastes like success.

When I look at a season, and it's all said and done, and the thing I look for is, first off, did my team win?

If you don't succeed, I don't want to see you alive," he advised. "I see no point in surviving defeat, and I am sure that if all of you enter into battle with equal resolution, we shall conquer, and live long, and gain more glory.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

You know, we French stormed Ratisbon.

Stalin's whole mode of being in the world militated against the renunciation of the idea of a new revolutionary period. The perspective of an ever-diminishing internal class struggle as the right way to socialism was totally alien to his makeup. Fighting, struggle and conquest were what he lived for as a Marxist and a Leninist. Socialism had always meant to him a gospel of class war and it still did, whatever Lenin might have said toward the end about civil peace and reformism.

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely

La victoria aclara ideas y borra muchas indecisiones en la mente de la mayoría de los hombres.

As always! Why should I be surprised? Spread the word, Nynaeve. Tell Ituralde, Rhuarc, King Darlin. Tomorrow, we invade Shayol Ghul and claim it as our own! If we must put our head into the lion's mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Bloody ashes, but that had been a fun game. She had had the better of him time and again. Light send him plenty of women who could do that, though not in rapid succession, and always when he knew how to find the back door. Tuon was one. Come to think of it, he would probably never need another.