Quotes About The Spoils Of War

#1. Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

Arne Glimcher

#2. At some point, while you were roaming the globe, making treaties and dividing the spoils of war, I quietly declared my own independence. I am the sovereign nation of Clio now. And there will be no terms of surrender.

Tessa Dare

#3. But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.

Zane Grey

#4. The youth are the spoils of war.

Laini Taylor

#5. History books report one war after another. 'History' is the dates of wars, who won and who lost. But in truth, no one ever wins a war. Someone obtained the spoils, but no one wins.

'Intermediate Guide To Meditation

Kriyananda

#6. One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows.

Sarah Noffke

#7. This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.

Alan Bradley

#8. Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.

John Green

#9. I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

John Woo

#10. I sheathe my spear on my back and I plow through bushes dotted with prickly balls, feeling them scratch and scrape my skin, but do not stop.

Jennifer Martucci

#11. Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

Terry Goodkind

#12. But life's never easy when you need it to be.

Susane Colasanti

#13. To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

John Milton

#14. It's always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It's always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils. They call it 'The Great War' - clever marketing.

A.G. Riddle

#15. The library was the best place in the world.

Anita Anand

#16. I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#17. One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#19. We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.

Frederick Lenz