- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beirut
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020