Quotes About Conquest

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

Woe to the conquered.

I think anyone is lying if they say they don't want to win.

Obviously, when you win, good things happen.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Sometime about the year 117, the IXth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising among the Caledonian tribes and was never heard of again... no-one knows what happened to the IXth Legion after it marched into the northern mists.

Because every ruler celebrated his conquests by setting torch to the nearest library. Did not Julius Caesar incinerate the scrolls in the great library at Alexandria during his campaign against the republicans in Africa? Or General Stilicho, leader of the Vandals, order the burning of the Sybillene prophecies in Rome?

how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.

God has a plan for the conquest of all things by His covenant people. That plan is His law. It leaves no area of life and activity untouched, and it predestines victory. To deny the law is to deny God and His plan for victory.

The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

The State is born of the conquest of other people. The self-governing community is a creation of the people themselves in the process of overthrowing the State.

Do you know what emperors do, Tilla?' That was easy. 'Send soldiers to steal the land and make us pay taxes.

Translation was never possible. Instead there was always only conquest, the influx of the language of hard nouns, the language of metal, the language of either/or, the one language that has eaten all the others.

For a whole month they'd had to play Barbarian Stomp (See If You Can Change History!). One side had the cities and the riches and the other side had the hordes, and – usually but not always – the most viciousness. Either the barbarians stomped the cities or else they got stomped, but you had to start out with the historical disposition of energies and go on from there.

Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.

Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all the wonders of this brave new century should draw me from my grief and yet I can not heal my heart; and so the mind suffers; the mind closes as if it were a flower without sun

You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wept when there were no more worlds to conquer. Will you

Rome swallowed things and made them Roman.