Conqueror Quotes - Page 5

• Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

  Francis Quarles

  Neutrality, Prey, Dangerous

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.7

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• First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

  John Calvin

  Ease, Want, Scripture

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.40, Baker Books

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• 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

  Taken, Army, Faces

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

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• Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

  Lin Yutang

  Destiny, China, Seems

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• Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Suffering, Speech

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Exercise, Race, Government

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lasts, Well Known, Victim

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taxation, World, Chiefs

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1743, e-artnow

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• Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

  Plutarch

  Games, Achilles, Said

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.208

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• Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Men, Yale

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• Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

  Idi Amin

  Real, Men, Uganda

  Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.

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• 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

  Overcoming, Truth Is

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Grace and Truth: A Holy Pursuit”, p.75, Discovery House

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• War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Giving, Politics

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• FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Way, Merit

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, University of Georgia Press

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• Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

  Homer

  Games, History, Olympic Games

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• 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

  India, Way, Strange

  William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin

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• In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

  Eoin MacNeill

  Judging, History, Trials

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• Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Different, Dinosaurs

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Lying, People, Oppression

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.66, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Player

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• The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Country, Men, Honor

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• Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Memories, Children

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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

  Horace

  Latin, Savages, Greece

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• My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Land, Water

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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