Quotes About Conquest

GW: 'Vigilant citizens are required to keep parties focused on serving the people rather than the unprincipled pursuit of power that divides in order to conquer

Therefore, arguing that a modern day Daughter of Babylon arising again in Iraq will be destroyed because ancient Babylon conquered Jerusalem over 2,600 years ago, ignores the fact that God tells us in His inspired Word that He has already punished ancient Babylon for what it did to Israel.

Biblical prophecies of the coming Antichrist and the Muslim predictions of the coming Mahdi have an eerie overlap: a.) Both the Biblically-prophesied Antichrist and the Muslim-predicted Mahdi are to be religious and governmental leaders, who lead military campaigns, in an attempt to conquer the nations of the earth, and commence a new world order;

In the 6th century B.C., the Median kingdom included what is now Iran, Turkey, Iraq and surrounding areas. The Medo-Persian empire, a powerful dual empire, lasted until its conquest by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. The area, for centuries, has been populated by Muslims. When God removes His protection from the Daughter of Babylon, He will stir up the kings of the Medes to destroy the Daughter of Babylon. Those persons would be from the area that today includes Iran and Iraq.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat.

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Paleolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

Jesus gained the victory through submission and faith in God,

Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.

The Vikings concentrated on monasteries, not because they had a vendetta against Christian religious communities, but simply because they could get the greatest loot here.

The year 845 was a fateful one. The region around the Seine was plundered. Paris, including the town's fortified centre on the Île de la Cité, was conquered and looted on Easter Sunday, 28 March; Charles the Bald paid the Vikings 7,000 lbs of silver to withdraw – the first of many payments to them. The Vikings did not get much joy from their 'heavy-laden ships', however. Their leader Ragnar (who brought back a bar from the city-gate of Paris

Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.

Aduni,cuceresti,castigi si lupti pentru a fugi de tine,pentru a-ti invinge intristarea de a nu exista,in mod real,decat tu insuti.

This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history.

Hannibal's drama was to be born too soon; a few centuries later, he would have found Rome's gates open. The Empire was vacant, like Europe in our time.

Conquest and Inquisition—parallel phenomena, products of Spain's imposing vices.

Singolare e straordinaria è la brevità del tempo impiegato dal fascismo per conquistare il potere. Il partito bolscevico aveva 14 anni quando conquistò il potere con un colpo di Stato nel 1917.

Non siamo più ai tempi dei Pizarro, degli Almagro, dei Cortez, i grandi conquistatori degli imperi americani. Che disgrazia non essere nati due o trecento anni fa! Io e Sandokan avremmo forse conquistata anche l'Africa intera.

In general, too, the conquerors would be better than the conquered (most merits in early society are more or less military merits), but they would not be very much better, for the lowest steps in the ladder of civilization are very steep, and the effort to mount them is slow and tedious.

The State, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest.

You were attacking the enemy skillfully and subtly," Ileana went on, "but at the same time you could not have known that the bats would play a leading part in you offensive." "If it had not been the bats, it would have been something else," Vladilas said. "But I knew eventually you would be mine, as I wanted you to be.

The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do – only stupidity. There was no way to explain to him our need to explore, to find out about the rest of the world, and to discover and develop ingenuity, endurance, and self-reliance – that pioneer spirit that had been buried under the comforts of modern society.

por un cristiano que los indios matasen, habían los cristianos de matar cien indios.