Vanquish Quotes

• 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

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• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  Abba Eban

  War, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment". Book by Stephen J. Roth, 1988.

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• Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Important, Overcoming, Essentials

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• Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

  Arthur Helps

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Strength, Weakness, Conflict

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• The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

  Charles M. Blow

  Way, Cowardice

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• Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

  Che Guevara

  Struggle, Men, People

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Years, Shadow

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12

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• The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

  Al Gore

  Time, War, Struggle

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

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• Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Evil People, Order

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• Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophy, Past, Evil

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• My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Desire, Overcoming

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• You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

  Livy

  Victory, Profit, Know How

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 51,

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

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• The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Communication, Warrior, Way

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Bravery, Stories, Overcoming Fear

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.51, Vintage

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• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

  Ovid

  Love, Love Is, Succeed

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

  Og Mandino

  Smile, Kingdoms, Inexpensive

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Journey, Brave

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

  Saadi

  Fighting, Together, Lions

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• Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

  Louise Labe

  Heart, Littles, Someday

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• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Light, Evil

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• The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

  Garrison Keillor

  Rain, Fire, Religion

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• If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Real, Attachment

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• It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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