Quotes About Conquest

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.

For four hundred years the white man had added continent to continent in his imperial progress, equipped with resistless sea-power and armed with a mechanical superiority that crushed down all local efforts at resistance. In time, therefore, the colored races accorded to white supremacy a fatalistic acquiescence, and, though never loved, the white man was usually respected and universally feared. During

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Jeg tror jammen at du endelig har beseiret meg, svarte han med et humoristisk glimt i øyet.

The problem is not that Afghans unite and then cannot be conquered; the problem is that Afghans fragment and then cannot be governed

Zoe wasn't his partner, she was his trophy, and the thing about trophies is that they got old fast and, soon enough, you needed another conquest and another trophy on the shelf.

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

Nor could it be used to purchase food after the English king, whose men had dragged ships across the land, laid thick chains across the river Seine, isolating the unlucky souls in Rouen.

Armamos a los que odiamos, con armas sobrenaturales, y nos achicamos en su presencia, y así al final, no son ellos los que nos conquistan, sino, nosotros mismos.