But even the Nazis realized that if there was something…

“You also," he said, lowering his voice, "haven't yet thanked me for saving you from sitting in the flower bed." She didn't even look…

— Stephanie Laurens

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who…

— Henry Louis Gates

“The first colonial leaders, however, would have none of this. Most of them were military men, trained in the Irish wars. Whatever they thought…

— David E. Stannard

“In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

— Yvon Chouinard

I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after…

— Quentin S. Crisp

After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He…

— Lou Holtz

“Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing…

— Yvon Chouinard

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was,…

— Jack Handey

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become…

— Alistair Cooke

What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years…

— Joel Salatin

The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the…

— Maureen Dowd

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements…

— Peter Shaffer

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing…

— Sigmund Freud