Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.
I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
They. . . who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It. , Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono. ]
For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.