Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that in a…

— Albert Camus

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

— Homer

“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

— N.K. Jemisin

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh…

— Gourav Mohanty

“As far as we can tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom, and the…

— Leonard William King