Vanquished Quotes

80 quotes by 71 authors

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
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. — Sophie Swetchine
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
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
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
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. — Desire-Joseph Mercier
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
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
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard
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
Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so — Quintus Ennius
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. — Ovid
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
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
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
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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