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“But even the Nazis realized that if there was something that gave more power than merely destroying the word, it was owning and controlling it.”

Literature History Power Genocide Power Of Words Imperialism Cultural Identity Conquistadors Victors Conquerers

Author:Anders Rydell

“We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.”

Chile Conquistadors 16th Century Arauco

Book:Arauco

Source: Arauco

“The conquistador has no real appreciation of the new, wanting only to make his fortune and return to build an ugly palace towering the pigsty of his birth, but not before he does his best to transform the Indies into the nightmare they left behind.”

Spain Chile Conquistadors Indies Mapuche

Book:Arauco

Source: Arauco

“Some readers who have visited New Spain, and other interested persons who have not, may be aware that Mexico was a very large city, built in the water like Venice, and governed by a great prince called Montezuma, who was a king of many neighbouring lands and ruled over the whole of New Spain, which is a country twice the size of out own.”

Aztecs Conquistadors Mesoamerica

Book:The Conquest of New Spain

Source: The Conquest of New Spain

“Ah, et l'or du Pérou qui (...) se transforme en venin de serpent quand la cupidité mord les hommes de Castille.”

Latin America Peru Conquista Conquistadors Antonio Gil

Book:Hijo de mí (Serie La Otra narrativa)

Source: Hijo de mí (Serie La Otra narrativa)

“Do we prejudice our discussion and privilege traditional answers by styling the invaders as "explorers", th einvaded as "Indians", and their war as "the Conquest of Mexico" ?”

Mexico Conquista Conquistadors 16th Century Cortés Montezuma

Book:When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

Source: When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

“You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.”

Climbs Summit Conquistadors

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.”

“I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us to beware of aliens because they'll probably just do to us as the conquistadors did to the native peoples of the Americas. So . . . exactly why do we want to go on and on, to go forth and multiply in a hostile final frontier? Why?”

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Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges”

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Author:Alistair Cooke

“What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'”

Years Stills Enough Happens Language Seeing Streets Wall Listening Years Ago Mad Latin Cows Mentality Uniforms Efficiency Paradigm Contention Pleading Lexicon Bovine Conquistadors

Author:Joel Salatin

“I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador”

Men Adventure Thinker Observers Temperament Conquistadors

Author:Sigmund Freud