Quotes with conquerors

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• If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

  Arthur Koestler
  Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

  Herbert Kaufman
   
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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh
  French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• engine-drivers
• conspicuous
• beneficial
• everything
• victorious
• conquered

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