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vanquished
«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.»
Author: Abba Eban
(Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
called for, in history, morrow, sued, suing, The Victor, The Victors, unconditional, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes, victors
«Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded»
Author: Walter Lippman
(Editor, Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
succeeded, succeeding, The Victors, vanquished, victors
«Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
ape, ceased, first book, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
reconciled, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«Follow 'this' path... it is easily accessible and the cart can move freely on it.... treading on which the brave ones do not get vanquished and which also provides better prospects for earning wealth.»
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, contest, divers, puncture, punctured, punctures, swim bladder, The Victor, vanquished
«Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
revengeful, The Victor, The Victors, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes, victor
«Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
elected, hopelessness, horror, Joy of, pilgrimage, skirt, skirted, The Pilgrimage, vanquished, vanquishes
«Only the vanquished remember history.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, course, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, of course, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
