Top 129 Vanquished Quotes & Sayings

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

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.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel upon the neck of the vanquished. The wonder of Good Friday is that the victor lies vanquished by the vanquished one. We have to look deeper into the very heart and essence of things before we can see how real the victory is that thus hides itself under the guise of defeat.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization

At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

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