Genghis Khan Quote by James Rollins

“If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a…

— Conn Iggulden

“If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if…

— Conn Iggulden

“Seven Cities was an ancient civilization, steeped in the power of antiquity, where Ascendants once walked on every trader track, every footpath, every lost…

— Steven Erikson

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even…

— K.J. Wignall

“My empire has grown too far toward the outside. It is time,’ the Khan thought, ‘for it to grow within itself.”

— Italo Calvino

“Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.”

— Rory Stewart

“When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon,…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter—with premeditation and a happy…

— Adolf Hitler

“Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night.…

— James Clavell

“A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.”

— Max Gladstone

“If he closes his eyes he sees the streets of Asia full of fire. It rolls across cities like a burst map, the hurricane…

— Michael Ondaatje