Quotes About Conquest

Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.

And once Genghis Khan breached those walls, he did as he had promised. He killed everyone in the city, over a hundred thousand people. But he didn't stop there. It is said he slaughtered every beast of the field, too. It was those dark acts that earned the city the name it bears today." The professor shuddered. "Shahr-e-Gholghola. The City of Screams.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

thus was the Empire forged.

The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans "discovered" the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn't exist before Europeans saw them.

It was disease, more than anything else, that allowed the Spanish to establish the world's first imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol, the "empire on which the sun never sets," so called because it occupied a swath of territory so extensive that some of it was always in daylight.

For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall; There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all, And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs, And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!

The damage done by colonial powers to the heritage of conquered peoples is irreversible; yet racial memory is a collective storehouse that time and history cannot eradicate.

Lors donc que Rome, dans cette prétendue marche triomphale vers la civilisation unique, eut détruit, l'une après l'autre, Carthage, l'Egypte, la Grèce, la Judée, la Perse, la Dacie, les Gaules, il arriva qu'elle avait dévoré elle-même les digues qui la protégeaient contre l'océan humain sous lequel elle devait périr.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

The more games you win the warmer it gets in December.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

We must show them we're superior and put them in their place. Dominate or be dominated.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

Govenment is founded on property Property is founded on conquest Conquest is founded on power All power is founded on brain and brawn.