If the Mongols had a motto, it might have been “Have…

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they…

— Brent Scowcroft

“It was said that the Mongols picked up women at one village and dropped them off at the next—having sex along the course of…

— Bradley Smith

“The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign—total victory. Toward this…

— Jack Weatherford

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it.…

— Murray Rothbard

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

— Genghis Khan

Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The Mongols who inherited Genghis Khan’s empire exercised a determined drive to move products and commodities around and to combine them in ways that…

— Jack Weatherford

“First, is the image, so far projected here, of Mongols draped in gilded cloth that would gladden the heart of a Liberace really true?”

— Thomas J. Allsen

Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other than upper…

— Joan Chen

We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea…

— Conn Iggulden

“The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their…

— Walter Kaylin

“The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian…

— Jack Weatherford

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With…

— James Buchan

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

— Saddam Hussein

“Despite his image as a bloody tyrant, Genghis was also forward thinking. His empire had the first international postal system, invented the concept of…

— James Rollins