Conquerors Quotes

63 quotes by 53 authors

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on… — John Henrik Clarke
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best… — John Henrik Clarke
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.… — Laozi
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. — Honore de Balzac
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of… — Ambrose Bierce
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. — Herbert Kaufman
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by… — Frederick Stanley Maude
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It… — Benjamin Disraeli
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye,… — Arthur Koestler
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through… — Wallace Stegner
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! — Augustus
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. — C.S. Lewis
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. — Saint Augustine
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. — Thomas Carlyle
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control. — Ernst Zundel
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed… — Donald Judd
Excellent conquerors do not engage. — Laozi
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. — Paul Eldridge

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