66 Quotes About Conquest

While I was sat there being my usual pessoptimistic self, he was ecstatic: "Verdant fields! Green on your right and on your left; green everywhere! We have given life to what was dead. This is why we have named the borders of former Israel the Green Belt. For beyond them lie barren mountains and desert reaches, a wilderness calling out to us, "'Come you tractors of civilisation

The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.

A man’s conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.

We’re actually happy with things just as they are. Conquering more land would just mean the seven families would be at each other’s throats over how to divide up the spoils. We don’t want to conquer the world, we just want the world to think we want to conquer them so they don’t try and conquer us.

Children happily played "cowboys and Indians" but stopped short of "masters and slaves.

We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.