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Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.
One battle in twelve might be won by a brilliant military stratagem. The rest stood or fell by somebody's blunders. Only rarely, there came the feel of a great campaign evolved by a stylist: imaginative, comprehensive, irresistible.
Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
For they conquer who believe they can.
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
The Conquest of Happiness
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
We must conquer war or war will conquer us.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
Conquer no man than yourself.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
Apparently the Ministerium Tenebrae had decided to conquer the region using the unusual twin-pronged attack of zombies and avant-garde artwork.
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest ...
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
Conquest directed toward
the interior of the country is called repression or propaganda ("the first step on the road to hell," according
to Frank). Directed toward the exterior, it creates the army.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Love is a conquest! Love is war!
An endless defeat
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
War,
the trade of barbarians!
Spare the conquered and confront the proud.
Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.
Whoever can surprise well must conquer
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.
Love is a conquest, love is a war
The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.
Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Every piece of the globe has been conquered at least a handful of times." "And the conquerors promptly forgot that they stole it from someone else so that they could claim some sort of moral right to the land when someone else tried to take it away from them," I suggested.
Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?
Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests.
That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
History is chronicled by conquerors.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
They cannot conquer for ever!
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest
A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.
Conquer no man but thyself.
Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
How empire permeates!
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered
Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.
Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.
You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ...
The reflected world is the conquest of calm
And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.
After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.
Woe to the conquered.
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.
Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
Sieges weathered.
Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race.
But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.
In this the seat our Conqueror has given?
And this the climate we must change for heaven?
These Regions and this realm my wars have got
The mournful Empire is the loser's lot.
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.
A conquered foe should be watched.
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
I came to win, to conquer, to thrive
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.
It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.
To ravage, to slaughter, to steal, this they give the false name of empire; and where they create a desert, they call it peace.
Love is a conquest. Love is a war. That is all it is.
Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.
Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.