Quotes About Conquest

Ah, the marvel of queens. Even in ancient times he had heard talk of queens protecting their kingdoms, while kings go forth to conquer new ones, of queens protecting their power, while kings seek more. And in modern times, he had heard tell of a great queen, Elizabeth of England, who had followed this very path, protecting her great kingdom and its far-flung colonies, but never initiating a war to gain increased power or land.

If, like the Romans, he must make a desert and call it peace, so be it.

We'd become aliens in our own land, he'd warned, denied our own laws, our own language, even our yesterdays, for a conquered people are not allowed a prideful past. Worst of all, we'd be leaving our children and grandchildren a legacy of misery and loss, a future bereft of hope.

When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observed, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as 'a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who possess the thing he wants'. Durant is scathing about this pretence: 'Hypocrisy was added to brutality, while the robbery went on.' And

Colonialism was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest that first established power on foreign shores… Colonialism was itself a cultural project of control.

With the absorption of each native state, the (East India) company official John Sullivan observed in 1840s: The little court disappears--the capital decays--trade languishes--the capital decays--the people are impoverished--the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames.

The British conquest of India was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading company [the British East India Company] utterly without scruple or principle, careless of art and greedy of gain, over-running with fire and sword a country temporarily disordered and helpless, bribing and murdering, annexing and stealing, and beginning that career of illegal and 'legal' plunder which has now [1930] gone on ruthlessly for one hundred and seventy-three years.

Empire was in many ways the vehicle for the extension of British social structures to the colonies they conquered.

And the British had the gall to call him 'Clive of India', as if he belonged to the country, when all he really did was to ensure that a good portion of the country belonged to him.

When an Englishman wants something, he never publicly admits to his wanting it; instead, his want is expressed as a 'burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who possess the thing he wants

British under Clive defeat Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula to become rulers of Bengal, the richest province of India.

As the film draws to a close, the camera becomes riveted on a seemingly endless parade, row on row, of uniformed Nazis, shoulder to shoulder, goose-stepping in the flickering torchlight. Even today it leaves an impression of iron determination, of power poised for conquest, of power resolute, mindless, its might wrapped in myth.

Veni, vidi, nates calce concidi.

When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

Ranije je koristila neku ?aroliju zvanu Paprat u sutonu. Bilo je kao udisanje Šopena i Edne Milej, i kad bi se taj miomiris širio s njene kose i ramena, znao sam da je zastava podignuta i da želi da bude osvojena.

Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.

Will to Gundar: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.

Ik ben op zoek naar een stel sterke kerels die van een potje vechten houden. Ik wil namelijk een kasteel plunderen, en ik heb begrepen dat jullie daar best goed in zijn. - Will, tegen de Skandiërs

destroyed above 12,000,000 of souls upon the continent of America, in the space of forty years.

And it happened, as they fled before Israel . . . that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them . . . and they [five armies] died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword. (JOSHUA 10:11)

Had the Saracens captured Constantinople in the seventh century rather than the fifteenth, all Europe – and America – might be Muslim today.

Ego sum Attila, flagellum Dei" (Ben de Attila, Tanr?'n?n k?rbac?/I am Attila, the scourge of God)