Conquerors Quotes
Sober reflections on power, history, and peace
This collection of conquerors quotes examines power, history, and the case for peacemaking over conquest. For related leadership themes, see our Able quotes.
Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
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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.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
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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.
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of...
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.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Several quotes challenge romanticized views of conquest and its lasting effects. If historical reckoning interests you, browse our Always quotes too.
