Conquest Quotes

Consuelo de Cordova: Cochise, I'm sorry.
Cochise: You know about Terua?
Consuelo de Cordova: Yes.
Cochise: You must never be sorry. People who are no longer with us have gone to another life - one that is much richer than ours - where there is no sickness, pain, death or sorrow. We wish them well, and then never think about it again. I will start from the beginning, now, as if Terua never existed.

Movie: Conquest
Queen Isabella I.: [referring to Columbus' proposed expedition] The costs would be ruinous.
Sanchez: No more than the costs of two state banquettes.

Movie: Conquest
Consuelo de Cordova: Why does he turn his back on her? Doesn't he like her?
Cochise: This is the mother of the bride. Our custom forbids the husband to talk to his mother-in-law forever.
Consuelo de Cordova: How strange.
Cochise: In some ways, the custom of the Apache is superior to that the white.

Movie: Conquest
MacDonald: Caesar... Caesar! This is not how it was meant to be.
Caesar: In your view or mine?
MacDonald: Violence prolongs hate, hate prolongs violence. By what right are you spilling blood?
Caesar: By the slave's right to punish his persecutor.
MacDonald: I, a decedent of slaves am asking you to show humanity.
Caesar: But, I was not born human.
MacDonald: I know. The child of the evolved apes.
Caesar: Whose children shall rule the earth.
MacDonald: For better or for worse?
Caesar: Do you think it could be worse?
MacDonald: Do you think this riot will win freedom for all your people? By tomorrow...
Caesar: By tomorrow it will be too late. Why a tiny, mindless insect like the emperor moth can communicate with another over a distance of 80 miles...
MacDonald: An emperor ape might do slightly better?
Caesar: Slightly? What you have seen here today, apes on the 5 continents will be imitating tomorrow.
MacDonald: With knives against guns? With kerosene cans against flamethrowers?
Caesar: Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place

Movie: Conquest
[original opening, with clips of Peter in a demolition derby]
Announcer: Whether it's ancient combat or modern sport, winning is what it's all about.
Peter: I have to conquer a skill that I know absolutely nothing about.
Announcer: But how do you win?
Demolition derby announcer: The History Channel car is history!
Announcer: This man has learned the hard way. Now he's ready to show you.

Movie: Conquest