Beilby Porteus Quotes

One kills a man, one is an assassin, one kills millions, one is a conqueror, one kills everybody, one is a god.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

The whole history of the world, on its broader lines, has been one of race conflict, wars, subjugation or extinction.

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Use a proper degree of terror …kill evey man Kaffir…if possible the Chief should be destroyed.

The men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found. The women and children may be taken prisoners.

Extensive conquests, when pursued, must be the ruin of every free government.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

They are God’s people, these innocents, whom you destroyed. By what right do you make them die? …. By what right to you unleash enslaving wars upon them? They lived in peace in this land before you came, in peace in their own homes. They did nothing to cause you to slaughter them wholesale …. Are you out of your souls, out of your minds?

The barbarian nation of the Huns, became so great that more than a hundred cities were captured. There were so many murders and blood-lettings that the dead could not be numbered.