Top 100 Quotes About Conquerors
#1. Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No
Isabel Allende
#2. The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
Thomas Paine
#3. The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that the truth is objective fact as written down by the conquerors.
Dahr Jamail
#4. Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.
Roshani Chokshi
#5. Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.
Jack Gantos
#6. One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.
Walpola Rahula
#7. It is a shameful thing for a Christian to talk about getting the victory. We should belong so completely to the Victor that it is always His victory, and "we are more than conquerors through Him ... " (Romans 8:37).
Oswald Chambers
#8. If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.
Simone Weil
#9. You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.
John Dryden
#11. History would be boring without conquerors, bloodthirsty warlords and saviors.
Miltiades Varvounis
#12. in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Anonymous
#13. Cowards are servants of their fears.
Conquerors are masters of their fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
#15. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.
Frederick Stanley Maude
#16. Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
Corrie Ten Boom
#17. 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 paid for being world conquerors.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#18. General Gar, the leader of the Conquerors, was waiting for them. The Devourer.
Eliot Schrefer
#19. PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
Ambrose Bierce
#20. Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison
#21. But every time there have been conquests there have been conquerors; every time there has been a revolution in any state there have been great men,
Leo Tolstoy
#22. Doona always believe everything you read, especially history written by the conquerors of a nation, ...
Donna Grant
#23. Where the explorers go, conquerors and exploiters always follow.
James L. Cambias
#24. We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. We shall cast down the powers of darkness which are in the world, by our faith, and zeal, and holiness; we shall win sinners to Jesus, we shall overturn false systems, we shall convert nations, for God is with us, and none shall stand before us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#26. In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.
William Stolzenburg
#27. No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could theu conquer you?
Barbara Marciniak
#28. He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
[Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]
Plautus
#29. A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Gautama Buddha
#30. Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind.
Yuval Noah Harari
#31. BEHOLD THE CHEDDAR!" [Leo] announced. "ALL HAIL THE CHEESE CONQUERORS!
Rick Riordan
#32. I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
Bertrand Russell
#33. The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Saint Augustine
#34. The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
Oswald Chambers
#35. For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be "conquerors of the air" and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief.
David McCullough
#36. Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke
#37. To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.
George S. Patton
#38. India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
William Dalrymple
#39. Imperialism [ ... ] also meant that the conquerors themselves regarded and instructed their imperial subjects to regard the colonized countries as the outskirts rather than the center of the world.
Rebecca Solnit
#40. My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.
Raymond E. Feist
#41. Saints are slaves of good works.
Sages are slaves of wisdom.
Conquerors are slaves of victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they treat us. If they only could realize that we're all the same.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#43. The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Plautus
#44. If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
Arthur Koestler
#45. In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors
Eoin MacNeill
#46. Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman
#47. Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
Baron De Montesquieu
#48. The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#49. Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
Jean Anouilh
#50. Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.
Eric Hoffer
#51. Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#52. Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in the annihilation of races, and the telling of history from the standpoint of the conquerors and leaders of Western civilization.
Howard Zinn
#53. What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight.
Erika Johansen
#54. These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
Francine Rivers
#55. History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#56. The CIA not only missed the invasion, it refused to admit that it had missed it. Why would anyone in his right mind invade Afghanistan, graveyard of conquerors for two thousand years? A lack of intelligence was not the cause of the failure. A lack of imagination was.
Tim Weiner
#57. we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.
Rick Yancey
#58. The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
Bertolt Brecht
#59. How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.
C.S. Lewis
#60. When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.
Adolf Hitler
#61. No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas Carlyle
#62. Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
Honore De Balzac
#63. Excellent conquerors do not engage.
Laozi
#64. Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
Lionel Sosa
#65. We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli
#66. If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.
Edward Gibbon
#67. Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
Pankaj Mishra
#68. Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I know know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.
Laila Lalami
#69. The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
Adolf Hitler
#70. The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur
#71. Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.
John Sheridan
#72. It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
[Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]
Julius Caesar
#73. The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
#74. The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
Seneca The Younger
#75. It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
John Henrik Clarke
#76. War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Julius Caesar
#77. Even though the situation may look dire, God is our light in the darkness. We are in a spiritual war, but failure is not an option. We are victors. We are conquerors. We always win.
Angela Lane Woods
#78. Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
Roger Milla
#79. The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.
Simon Bolivar
#80. When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#81. Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
James Gleick
#83. Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
Augustus
#84. A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
#85. Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
Ernst Zundel
#86. Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
Francis Quarles
#87. History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.
Manjul Bajaj
#88. Unhappy Persia, that in former age
Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors,
That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.
Christopher Marlowe
#89. But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors.
Hilda Van Stockum
#90. Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
Ilana Mercer
#91. History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge
#92. No one but Ronan knew the terrors that lived in his mind. Plagues and devils, conquerors and beasts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors ... all black and brown people.
Immortal Technique
#94. There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
Arundhati Roy
#95. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;
Matthew Henry
#96. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
Joseph Joubert
#97. Who shall contend with time,
unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke White
#98. But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear?
Charlotte Bronte
#99. Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
Hassan Nasrallah
#100. Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.
Ashraf Ghani
