Quotes About Conquest

Those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle. They capture his cities without assaulting them and overthrow his state without protracted operations. Your aim must be to take All-under-Heaven intact. Thus your troops are not worn out and your gains will be complete. This is the art of offensive strategy.

To fight is to win, for he attacks only when the enemy has sown the seeds of defeat.

En la guerra, el verdadero objetivo es alcanzar la victoria, y no realizar campañas largas.

Si utilizas al enemigo para derrotar al enemigo, serás poderoso en cualquier lugar a donde vayas.

Secure your victory by attacking indefensible position.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Así es como en la guerra, el estratega victorioso solo busca la batalla después de que la victoria ya se ha ganado, mientras que aquel destinado a la derrota, primero pelea y después busca la victoria.

The most means victory, the least means defeat; none of it, a certain defeat.

Use victory over an enemy to bolster your own strenght.

L'invincibilité se trouve dans la défense, la possibilité de victoire dans l'attaque.

In war, appreciate victory, not a prolonged campaign.

cuando te conoces a ti mismo y conoces a los demás, la victoria no es un peligro; cuando conoces el cielo y la tierra, la victoria es inagotable.

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

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

As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.

Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain. Simply by being himself.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

I won everything I could win with Bayern and individually.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts. -Istak

Toute Église est conquérante par nature, parce qu'elle se croit en possession de l'absolu. [...] Aucune doctrine ne peut échapper à cette fascination. Le respect des convictions adverses et la tolérance moderne sont le fruit, et chez un petit nombre, du développement de la conscience ou de la conviction que la croyance à l'absolu est une maladie de l'esprit, chez la plupart des hommes le résultat d'une grande lassitude.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

Whupped 'em agin, didn't we, Josey?

I have Conquer'd, and shall still Go on Conquering. Nothing can withstand the fury of my Course.