Conquerors Quote by Jack Gantos

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that in a…

— Albert Camus

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…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

— Homer

“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

— N.K. Jemisin

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

“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…

— Joseph Conrad