quote by John Henrik Clarke

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

— John Henrik Clarke

Belligerent Conqueror quotations

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write.

You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!

It is difficulties that show what men are.

For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second.

Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

The war which is coming Is not the first one.

There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

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

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism.

It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer.

Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence.

We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

A skillful commander is not overbearing.

A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.