Vanquished Quotes
80 quotes by 71 authors
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War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant…
— Bruce Van Voorhis
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
— Sophie Swetchine
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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That…
— Phillips Brooks
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
— Desire-Joseph Mercier
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Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety - our own security - depends upon our willingness to do what…
— Barack Obama
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
— Mark Richard
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too…
— Ronald Reagan
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
— Quintus Ennius
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
— Ovid
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I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master…
— Michael Jackson
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The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous…
— Eve Langley
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
— Plato
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The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
— Theodor Adorno
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