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“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down a...”
“Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ...”
“We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.”
“What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up i...”
“... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may reckon on being destroyed by it. For if it should rebel, it can always screen itself under the name of...”
“... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of the country are spent in guarding it so that the gain becomes a loss, and much deeper offense is gi...”
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”
“Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, ori...”
“Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on the wings of our violent nature. There's no other way.”
“Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.”
“A mans conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ.”
“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
“I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it...”
“You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isnt of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but thats not your business.They should...”
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.”
“How grand is victory but how dear!”
“He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.”
“I came I saw I conquered.”
“To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.”
