Top 120 Conn Iggulden Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.”

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52. “Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.”

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53. “We are not here to earn riches with a bow. The wolf does not think of fine things, only that his pack is strong and no other wolf dares to cross his path. That is enough.”

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54. “Cities make you afraid.”

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55. “They are the great tribe,” Temujin replied, almost to himself. His voice was so quiet that Kachiun had to strain to hear. “I will give them a family again. I will bring them in and I will make them hard and I will send them against those who killed our father. I will write the name of Yesugei in Tartar blood and, when we are strong, I will come back from the north and scatter the Wolves in the snow.”

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56. “I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.”

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57. “He holds blood in his right hand,” she whispered. “He will walk with death all his life.”

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58. “Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.”

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59. “You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.”

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60. “This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia – and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.”

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61. “He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.”

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62. “There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.”

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63. “I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.”

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64. “A man should always care about pleasing his wife.”

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65. “We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.”

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66. “People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. EDMUND BURKE.”

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67. “We are nothing but the oath we give.”

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68. “If you are asking if my family will take what they want, of course they will. The strong rule, Chen Yi. Those who are not strong dream of it.”

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69. “There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.”

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70. “As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.”

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71. “Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.”

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72. “The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.”

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73. “What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.”

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74. “Every man can break, after certain time period. It’s only necessary to find the levers that move his soul.”

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75. “Every man has it’s price, but it’s almost never the gold.”

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76. “If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.”

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77. “A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done – trying to even the scales before they cross the river.”

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78. “Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It’s a game that mustn’t never be taken lightly.”

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79. “What we make can survive us.”

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80. “The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.”

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81. “The Assassin fortress in Alamut came under attack by Hulegu’s forces around 1256. The head of the Muslim sect that held the fortress of Alamut was, in fact, Ala Ad-Din. I avoided his true name because of the similarity to “Aladdin” and because.”

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82. “All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.”

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83. “Your gold buys my service, pleasure of seeing Spartans in battle. It is a rare gift and worth more than mere coins. After all, most men see it only once and never again.”

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84. “A good general is ready for every option.”

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85. “The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.”

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86. “His generals were ready; his sons were. It remained to be seen whether the Arab nations were ready to meet them in war. In their arrogance, they had invited annihilation.”

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87. “It was a revelation as important as any other in its way – that expert men love their subject. Show them interest, show them fascination, and they see themselves reflected – and then they will move the world for you. The.”

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88. “Vengeance is a fine thing, but forgiveness can be just as cruel.”

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89. “The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.”

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90. “What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?”

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91. “He chuckled to himself as he walked. A warm woman and a battle to come. To be alive on such a night was a wondrous thing.”

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92. “Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.”

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93. “After tonight, we will be with the spirits and see the hills of home,” he called to them. “The khan will hear. He will sweep this land clean.”

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94. “No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.”

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95. “A knowledge isn’t dangerous. Only the man is dangerous.”

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96. “He did not fear such enemies, nor a dozen armies like them. He was khan of the sea of grass and they were just city men, soft and fat for all their bluster and sharp swords. He would cut them down.”

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97. “You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you,” Temujin reminded him softly.”

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98. “There shouldn’t be walls among the allies.”

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99. “For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.”

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100. “You can’t just wound the bear and run. He’ll come after you.”

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