Quotes About Spanish Conquest

#1. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

David Roberts

#2. In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

Frederick Lenz

#3. One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery

Demi Lovato

#4. I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

Michael Winter

#5. I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

Joe Rogan

#6. Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#7. Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. I am wet shoes.
I am cold, damp breath.
I am sweating hands.
I am gravity crushing the grass beneath my boots.
I am Kevlar and metal and lead.
I am laser sighting.
I am death.
And I am coming.

Shane Kuhn

#10. I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.

Charles Richet

#11. What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.

William Barrett

#12. The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

Martin Luther

#13. After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Halle Berry

#14. And you?" she asked. "What happens to you in that scenario?" I die a little each day we're apart. "I ... get by. And I miss you, every day." Every hour, every minute ... every second.

S.C. Stephens

#15. Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

Ikue Mori

#16. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him ... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

George Orwell