Vanquished Quotes

80 quotes by 71 authors

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that… — George Leigh Mallory
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the… — Chris Hedges
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Do the people of this landâ€¦desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendmentâ€¦ If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For… — George Sutherland
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.… — Hideki Tojo
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional… — Abba Eban
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious… — Franz Oppenheimer
If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be… — Dorotheus of Gaza
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he… — Nikos Kazantzakis
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and… — Joachim du Bellay
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it… — Gustav Stresemann
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space. — Giordano Bruno
How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you… — Kresley Cole
The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of… — John Cassian
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly… — Morihei Ueshiba
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in… — Ambrose Bierce
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the… — Gustav Stresemann
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in… — Max Stirner
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and… — Genghis Khan

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