Quotes About Conquest

You never tire of winning.

Winning tastes good.

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Winning is everything.

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'

Winning - when the game is big, that's all that matters. There's the hoopla, the halftime concerts, whatever. But people always remember who wins. They never remember who loses.

If you look at my boys, the one thing they do do is win.

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Achievement unlocked.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices—to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children … and the children yet unborn. (a pause) And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone!

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices—to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children … and the children yet unborn.

Having left not one of them alive, they stripped the temple of its treasures and burnt everything on the Acropolis.

Victory over Athens simply replaced a much-resented Athenian empire with a Spartan one that would soon be resented

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

From Antioch, the crusaders went on their way to Jerusalem to seize the city and massacre everyone in it on 15 July 1099.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

troops. Not only did he destroy the pirates' bases

Pompey went on to roll up what little was left of the Seleucid kingdom of Asia three years later

One by one, the great cities of the east were either sacked by the Persians or surrendered:

year later the former king would be paraded through the streets of Rome among captives

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.