Quotes About Conquest

Vincit qui patitur [he who suffers conquers].

They agree that the chosen have "absolute right" to smash the rest of mankind. They agree that might, being the expression of destiny, makes right.

The hunger and hunt for identity is a driving force of the modern world. But the nature of the self in an age of simulacra, pseudonyms, avatars, gender/racial fluidity, "the wisdom of crowds," and online friends makes having an identity a massive maze of conquest and confusion.

The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.

Gideon isn't for sale mister. Ah, yes. Like the Louisana Purchase, or Manhattan. I see. Should I have come with a purse full of beads and a wagon of diseased blankets? ... Can't you smell the history in the air? No doubt their grandfathers rushed across these prairies in their wagons, knocking down the natives, smashing in their brains in their zeal to stake for their claim. That pioneer spirit. My, what a land! I have learned so much from you

Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

He had to give it to nature, to the universe: it kicked ass.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

Winning is a great deodorant.

Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous 'embarkation' and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.

Man does not steal, he conquers

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Despite its fascist government Greece entered the Second World War on the Allied side because Italy invaded what it thought was a target for easy conquest. Here was further evidence that, despite the rhetoric, rulers did not consider the Second World War to be a war between fascists and anti-fascists.

It's been said that history is told by the victors.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

There is no substitute for victory.

Algerian President Houari Boumedienne who in 1974 told the General Assembly of the United Nations, 'One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.