Quotes About Conquest

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.

moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered...

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer—because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.

Reason is not automatic, those who deny it cannot be conquered by it

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

The United States continued to practice forms of economic and political imperialism in the years ahead, but territorial conquest began and ended in the Philippines.

Just like the Spanish on Earth in pursuit of gold, the twenty-second-century conquistadors of RDA, are here in pursuit of unobtainium, and have come face to face with hunter-gatherers of the forest

Rome strikes back!

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

As historian Will Durant wrote: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."1

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.