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Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control. -- Ernst Zundel
Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ. However, it does not mean you should stay idleDress up and go to work! -- Israelmore Ayivor
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. -- Paul Eldridge
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. -- Herbert Kaufman
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
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
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
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers. -- John Henrik Clarke
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. -- John Henrik Clarke
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe. -- Pankaj Mishra
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. -- Rabih Alameddine
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859. -- Stephen Kinzer
Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Excellent conquerors do not engage. -- Laozi
History would be boring without conquerors, bloodthirsty warlords and saviors. -- Miltiades Varvounis
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! -- Augustus
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.] -- Plautus
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. -- Saint Augustine
Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too. -- James Gleick
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. -- Arundhati Roy
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors. -- Plautus
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? -- Henry Kirke White
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? -- Lord Byron
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. -- Julius Caesar
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. -- Thomas Paine
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. -- Joseph Joubert
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors -- Eoin MacNeill
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. -- Frederick Stanley Maude
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. -- C. S. Lewis
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. -- Meridel Le Sueur
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. -- Honore de Balzac
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. -- Christina Baldwin
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? -- Homer
History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers. -- Manjul Bajaj
A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors. -- Gautama Buddha
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. -- Thomas Carlyle
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors. -- Francis Quarles
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you? -- Barbara Marciniak
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
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors? -- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. -- Ambrose Bierce
We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people. -- Immortal Technique
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors. -- Seneca the Younger
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists. -- Albert Camus
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
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. -- Joseph Conrad
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
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. [Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.] -- Julius Caesar
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey. -- Arthur Koestler
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'Ãªtre if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest. -- Bertrand Russell
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity. -- Baron de Montesquieu

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