Quotes About Conquest

They grabbed what they could get and for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter nose than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

La conquista de la tierra, que por lo general consiste en arrebatársela a quienes tienen una tez de color distinto o narices ligeramente más chatas que las nuestras, no es nada agradable cuando se observa con atención. Lo

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to….

this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on

Why is it," Royce murmured, gazing into her intoxicating eyes, "that every time you surrender willingly, like this, you make me feel like a king who has conquered. Yet when I conquer you against your will, you make me feel like a defeated beggar?

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

Alexander and Caesar have had this in common: to be loved and wept by the conquered, and to perish by the hands of their own countrymen. Such men have no country; they belong to the world.

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.

History is written by the victors.

Chi conquista un migliaio dei soliti cuori ha diritto a qualche fama, ma chi sa rimaner assoluto padrone del cuore di una civetta è veramente un eroe.

O Jujutsu "O homem, ao nascer, é flexível e fraco; na morte, firme e rígido; assim com as causas: - firmeza e rigidez são as concomitâncias da vida; por este modo, aquele que confia na sua própria força, não será o conquistador.

Islam in India began not with the political conquest of India by Mahmud of Ghazni but much earlier, when the Muslims entered India not as conquerors but as merchants

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within

Índios' foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los. [...] Ao reduzi-los, dominaram; ao dominá-los, enfraqueceram valentes civilizações. Tudo isso contido em uma única palavra: índio.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.

Napoleon said, "The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory.

This is a book about winning

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and destruction…. A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

may have conquered Santa Anna," Nancy Lea was fond of telling him, "but you will never conquer me.

Fin Gall - Gaelic term for Vikings of Norwegian descent. It means White Strangers.