Top 74 Quotes About Genghis Khan
#1. Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world.
Amy Chua
#2. No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan
Jack Weatherford
#3. By the time Genghis Khan arrived to give his newest subjects their religious freedom, after first brutalizing them into submission, Darjmainia had developed its own very complex, partially amalgamated collection of sacred stories
Tony McMillen
#4. It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows.
The Oatmeal
#5. In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and ... mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.
Bill Cosby
#6. Will you tell me about Genghis Khan's whores while I'm in the bath?" "Hordes, not whores. He had both, though, now that you mention it." "Sounds like he was a busy guy." You have no idea.
Kevin Hearne
#7. Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.
Rory Stewart
#8. It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.
Anthony Powell
#9. It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
John Humphrys
#10. You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Ryan Adams
#11. To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
Garet Garrett
#12. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.
Jeff Long
#13. One doesn't have to invoke dominance to explain why Genghis Khan inseminated so many women that his Y chromosome is common in Central Asia today; it's enough to observe that he killed the women's fathers and husbands.
Steven Pinker
#14. Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.
Ian Botham
#15. Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their male siblings).
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
#16. Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan.
Kathleen Parker
#17. He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)
Kerry Packer
#18. One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.
Jack Weatherford
#19. The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
Mao Tse-tung
#20. There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
Noam Chomsky
#21. I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.
Richard Kadrey
#22. I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong
#23. The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
Buzz Aldrin
#24. I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.
Rob Thurman
#25. Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire.
Jack Weatherford
#26. It is also said that Genghis Khan wanted to attack the kingdom of Prester John, but that the latter repulsed him by unleashing thunderbolts against his armies.
Rene Guenon
#27. The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
Jasper Fforde
#28. If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans Bethe
#30. It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.
Genghis Khan
#31. Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds
Genghis Khan
#32. Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages
Tom Doig
#33. One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.
Genghis Khan
#34. In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.
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#35. Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#37. We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
Conn Iggulden
#38. If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!
Genghis Khan
#39. The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Genghis Khan
#40. A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.
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#41. Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#42. My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world ...
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#43. The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#44. All who surrender will be spared ; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated .
Genghis Khan
#45. The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.
Genghis Khan
#47. With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you
Genghis Khan
#48. Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women
Genghis Khan
#49. Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.
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#50. There is no good in anything until it is finished.
Genghis Khan
#51. I hate luxury. I exercise moderation ... It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
Genghis Khan
#52. Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.
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#53. A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.
Genghis Khan
#54. For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
Conn Iggulden
#55. Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.
Genghis Khan
#56. 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 daughters are clasped to your breast.
Genghis Khan
#57. If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.
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#58. Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I
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#59. A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.
Genghis Khan
#60. One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
Genghis Khan
#61. It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.
Genghis Khan
#62. Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
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#63. There is no value in anything until it is finished.
Genghis Khan
#64. The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
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#65. The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.
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#66. An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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#67. People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.
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#68. Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.
Genghis Khan
#69. If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.
Genghis Khan
#70. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.
Genghis Khan
#71. I am the punishment of GOD. If you have not committed sins than GOD would'nt have sent me.
Genghis Khan
#73. I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
Genghis Khan
#74. Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men.
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