Conquerors Quotes
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Excellent conquerors do not engage.
Lao Tzu -
...the writing is writ large on the wall: Mother Earth will continue to punish us with floods, famines, and fires until we learn to behave as custodians of the natural world rather than as its conquerors.
Nancy Atherton
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The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
Bertrand Russell -
America’s progressive rulers, like France’s, act less as politicians gathering support than as conquerors who enjoy punishing captives without worry that the tables may turn.
Angelo Codevilla -
For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing else should have been expected.
Chancellor Williams -
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
Honore de Balzac -
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
Homer -
In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.
George Hodges
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
Lord Byron -
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
Augustus -
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 -
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors.
Eoin MacNeill -
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge