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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