Quotes About Conquest

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Murchaud's hands lightened on his hips; Murchaud's teeth closed on the nape of his neck like a stallion conquering a mare. He cried out, but Morgan's mouth muffled the sound.

We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid as that. But it is not peace when cruelty reigns, when stronger men steal from farmers and craftworkers, when the child can be enslaved or the old thrown out to starve, and no one lifts a hand. That is not peace: that is conquest, and evil.

So there are to be no obsequies. There is to be no mention of that which was to have conquered the world, and after the world, death. Not one of all these martyrs nailed to every tree in the western hemisphere will find favour in the editor's measuring eye. On the amusement page, to fill up space, one inch and a half, perhaps, of those who were forced to die. Butter is up ten cents. The human being is down.

Secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests," he continued. "Imperialism, with its dark plans of conquest and its robber alliances and deals, developed the system of secret diplomacy

The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

Vinieron los sarracenos / y nos molieron a palos; / que Dios ayuda a los malos / cuando son más que los buenos.

Para crear el infierno en el mar o en la tierra, no eran menester más que un español y el filo de una espada.

Ahí se explican muchos males de la España de entonces y de la futura, cuya clave quizá esté en la muy española carta que el loco y criminal conquistador Lope de Aguirre le dirigió a Felipe II poco antes de morir ejecutado: Mira que no puedes llevar con título de rey justo ningún interés destas partes donde no aventuraste nada, sin que primero los que en esta tierra han trabajado y sudado sean gratificados.

El hombre no roba, conquista», repetía a menudo... «Hace de cada provincia que toma un anexo de su imperio: le impone sus leyes, la puebla de temas y personajes, extiende su espectro sobre ella...».

sublevatas. Una de las últimas fue Calahorra, que ofreció heroica resistencia popular —de ahí viene el antiguo refrán: Calahorra, la que no resiste a Roma es zorra—

A diferencia de ustedes, los norteamericanos sólo hemos venido a saquear… No dejamos catedrales ni universidades, ni nada a cambio de cuanto arrebatamos en territorios, ni de los tesoros que nos llevamos en barcos y trenes

Las conquistas sin riesgos son sueños sin méritos. Nadie es digno de sus sueños si no utiliza sus derrotas para cultivarlos.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

The English-speaking world developed a historical narrative known as the "Black Legend," which portrayed the Spanish as cruel and backward conquistadores who murdered and plundered their way through the Caribbean and Latin America. The British, in contrast (according to their own account), were hard-working, forward-looking colonists (rather than colonizers) who industriously set up self-sufficient farming villages on empty lands.

If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.

The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

People will be the judge. They can rate the fights when I win.

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

All I did was win, win, win. I took winning for granted.

There's a great feeling when you look in someone's eyes and they have that 'look of defeat,' and that's what I'm looking for, and that's my game plan.

It is always a great feeling to win.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.