Quotes About Conquest

Victory by force is occupation; victory with love is factual succession.

It was like when Isabel managed not to marry the guy with the cotton mills, and it was her first taste of victory—because "she had done what she preferred.

The mutual conquest of difficulties is the cement of friendship, as it is the only lasting cement of matrimony.

It is the strategy which is appropriate to our cause and to our purpose--the strategy of truth--the strategy which opposes to the frauds and the deceits by which our enemies have confused and conquered other peoples, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as our must guide itself.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Victory is the end of generalship.

The first travelers were conquerors, not interested in looking, but in having.

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.

It's quite a good feeling when you win against 10,000 people.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests:

with its aid one can play the tyrant; one compromises by conquering. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to demonstrate he is not an idiot: he enrages, he at the same time makes helpless. The dialectician devitalizes his opponent's intellect.

Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.