Quotes About Conquest

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, And neither party loser." (William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two, Act IV, Scene 2, from the journals of May Dodd)

A King must win. The rest is dust.

The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.

Victory implies a fight, and there is nothing to be gained by fighting with us. The humans can't win.

We sure liberated the hell out of this place.

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

the victor belongs to the spoils

Înving?torii aparÈ›in pr?zii.

Algunos de nosotros se estancaron en la conquista estúpida de lo cotidiano, viles y ruines buscando el pan de cada día, y queriendo obtenerlo sin el trabajo sentido, sin la consciencia de esfuerzo, sin la nobleza de la conquista.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

Death is Life's triumph!

En la vida actual, el mundo sólo pertenece a los estúpidos, los insensibles y los agitados. El derecho a vivir y triunfar se conquista hoy casi a través de los mismos procedimientos con los que se conquista el internamiento en un manicomio: la incapacidad de pensar, la amoralidad y la hiperexcitación.

El mundo es para quien nace para conquistarlo y no para quien sueña que puede conquistarlo, aunque tenga razón.

I think it's good to conquer the fears.

The most important thing is to win fights. It doesn't matter how you do it.

As we say, finals are not to play them, they are to win them.

The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

You whites make all the ammunition.

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

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.