Conquerors Quotes

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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and… — Jawaharlal Nehru
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. — Benjamin Disraeli
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in… — Hassan Nasrallah
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we… — Harlan Ellison
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for… — John Dryden
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 accident… — Joseph Conrad
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. — Arundhati Roy
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There… — Bertolt Brecht
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards… — Virginia Woolf
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who… — Adolf Hitler
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering.… — Arundhati Roy
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of… — William L. Shirer
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will… — William L. Shirer
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians… — George S. Patton
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. — William Dalrymple
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. — Julius Caesar
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend… — Stephen Kinzer
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 paid… — Henry Cabot Lodge

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