Quotes About Conquest

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!

It is by humility that the Lord allows Himself to be conquered so that He will do all we ask of Him

Once upon a time..They came from Europe, yielding swords, they robbed, raped, conquered Africa , and gave us The Ten Commandments.

The harder the challenge the sweeter the victory"

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Love is a blind journey; it is a hart to conquer not a road to chose

Hace algunos años, de pronto me encontré en las barriadas argelinas de París tomando fotografías para un reportaje que estaba preparando. Poco faltó para que me lincharan. Tiempo después entendí que en Occidente nos vemos unos a otros como a países que hubiéramos conquistado. Hacemos lo que nos da la gana con el rostro y el cuerpo de las personas que tenemos alrededor. Colonizamos sus destinos. Les robamos sus sufrimientos y nos aprovechamos de su historia.

Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?

Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles

The number of difficulties makes the Christian's conquest the more illustrious. A gracious man should be made up all of fire, overcoming and consuming all opposition, as fire does the stubble. All difficulties should be but whetstones to his fortitude.

Settler colonialism, which is what this is, is by far the worst kind of imperialism, because it gets rid of the native population. Other kinds of imperialism exploit them, but settler colonialism eliminates them, "exterminates" them, to use the words of the Founding Fathers.

When you conquer somebody and suppress them, you have to have a reason for it. You can't just say 'I'm a son of a bitch' and I wanted to rob them. So you have to say it's for their good or they deserve it or they actually benefit from it and we're helping them and so on.

Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot.

Occupavi te, inquit, fortuna, atque cepi omnesque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses.

Occupavi te, inquit, fortuna, atque cepi omnesque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses. § Tusculan Disputations - Book V.

Occupavi te, inquit, fortuna, atque cepi omnesque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses. Tusculan Disputations - Book V.

the hunter-lust that prodded men to kill something strange or harder to kill or bigger than any man had ever killed before.