Genghis Khan Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

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  Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Fall, Warrior
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  The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Happiness, Daughter, Cities

• Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

  Genghis Khan

  Happy Life, Long, Mind

  "The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy". Book by Michael Prawdin, p. 224, 1940.

• Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Horse, Men

• The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

  Genghis Khan

  Lying, Men, Roots

• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

• The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Horse, Wife

• A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Military, Men

• Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

  Genghis Khan

  Home, Wish To Die, Expectations

• Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

  Genghis Khan

  Men, Joy, Enemy

• Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Lying, Wife

  Quoted inWitold Rodzinski, TheWalled Kingdom: A History of China (1979)

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