John Boyd Orr Quotes

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Let us first render ourselves popular by mighty deeds, and afterwards we will speak of peace and clemency. In the disputes of others let us always put ourselves on the side of the stronger. If we would become rich in men and cattle, we cannot help making enemies; but they will not roar for ever.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

Struggle for audacious power!

Special interests and the demented philosophy of conquest have driven most wars throughout history. Rarely has the cause of liberty, as it was in our own revolution, been the driving force.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.

LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.