Quotes About Conquest

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished.

Finally, when she was shaking so much that he staggered with the violence of her pleasure, he drove her back against the wall and took her as she stood, careless of the clothes that bunched between them, oblivious to everything but the primitive, driving force that had conquered him far more devastatingly than he had conquered her.

So Clovis married a princess from one barbarian tribe—Clotilda, a Burgundian. He fought other tribes and forced them to accept him as a leader. He defeated the last Roman soldiers left in Gaul. He convinced other Frankish chiefs to swear allegiance to him. And eventually, he ruled over all of Gaul. His empire became known as the Frankish Empire. Today, we call this part of the world France, after the Franks

Stone conquers people every time.

It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance," said Howard.

In any scenario, it's preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.

Stenen besegrar alltid människan (s. 176).

Sam Meksyk, w chwili przybycia Europejczyków w 1519 roku, mógÅ' mie? dwadzieÅ›cia pi?? milionów mieszkaÅ"ców. Pi??dziesiÄ…t lat pó?niej liczba ta spadÅ'a do dwóch milionów siedmiuset tysiÄ™cy.

Podstawowy jednak powód tak wysokiej Å›miertelnoÅ›ci to ich liczebno??. ByÅ'o ich po prostu za du?o, ?eby mogli przedstawia? sobÄ… jakÄ…Å› warto?? ekonomicznÄ… w ramach spoÅ'eczeÅ"stwa zdobywców.

Najwa?niejszym celem podboju nie byÅ'o bynajmniej mordowanie ludnoÅ›ci ?ydowskiej, tak jak nie byÅ'o intencjÄ… osiedlajÄ…cych siÄ™ Amerykanów mordowanie Indian. Zamierzano poszerzy? przestrzeÅ" ?yciowÄ…. Rosyjscy Å»ydzi zamieszkiwali tereny, które Hitler wÅ'aÅ›nie planowaÅ' zdoby?.

Victory's contagious" -Lorde

A wanton women is ripened fruit, ' Constanze intoned, 'begging to be plucked by the Goblin King.

He smelled of forest and primal desire that saturated Taryn's senses and made her imagine what it felt like to be caught and conquered.

By the 1770s, the Teton Sioux had overrun the Arikara, or Ree, on the Missouri River and made it as far west as the Black Hills, where they quickly ousted the Kiowa and the Crows. Over the next hundred years the Sioux continued to expand their territory, eventually forcing the Crows to retreat all the way to the Bighorn River more than two hundred miles to the west, while also carrying on raids to the north and south against the Assiniboine, Shoshone, Pawnee, Gros Ventre, and Omaha.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

Nous sommes devenus contre nature à partir du moment où nous avons conquis la mort

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What