“ Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. Mahatma Gandhi
“ To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest. Amit Kalantri
“ Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. Tim Wise
“ ...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements. John F. Baddeley
“ It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about. John Baddeley
“ The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conq… Graham Hancock
“ Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been ignored or forgiven; suggestions have been made about turnin… Rodney Stark
“ What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into… Jane Caputi
“ Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground… Anthony Liccione
“ His lips nuzzled her ear. Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die, he whispered. Teresa Medeiros
“ I am not speaking strictly of slavery here, but of that process that dislodges people from the webs of mutual commitment, shared history, and collective responsibility that make them what they are, so… David Graeber
“ Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. Ninon de L'Enclos
“ My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates… Leon Uris
