Genghis Khan Quotes

“In every glass of water we drink there are molecules once urinated by Genghis Khan”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.”
― Genghis Khan

“Холын зорилго үгүй аваас ойрын зовлон оршино.”
― Чингис Хаан

“He mapped the location of the tomb of Genghis Khan … Riding 700km by horse … he lived among the nomads of the Mongolian steppe … – Mongolian newspaper site Ünen – Truth - September 25 2015”
― Mongolian news site, of Robin Ackroyd

“If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.”
― Conn Iggulden, Bones of the Hills

“Old, he included
himself in his scorn for those who

young want the opposite of this earth

then settle
for more of it.”
― Frank Bidart

“Despite the fearsome reputation he acquired in the Middle Ages and which still endures, Genghis Khan built his position and power slowly, striking deals with fellow tribal leaders and choosing his allies astutely. He also chose his enemies well, and, above all, he picked the right moment to take them on.”
― Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History that created your World – Illustrated Edition

“In a hundred years no one you know will be alive. What will it matter if we fight or just spend our days sleeping in the sun?"

Zhenjin blinked at him, unable to understand his father's strange mood.

"If it doesn't matter, then why are we going to fight your brother?"

"Perhaps I haven't said it well. I mean it doesn't matter if we change the world. The world moves on and new lives come and go. Genghis himself said he would be forgotten and, believe me, he left a long shadow. It does matter how we live, Zhenjin! It matters that we use what we are given, for just our brief time in the sun." He smiled to see his son struggling with the idea. "It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I didn't waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years earlier had annihilated the Ghurids, the Mongol leaders personally marched across Asia to punish the impudent monarch. In the course of this expedition, Mongol cavalry inflicted fire and fury throughout Central Asia and Khurasan, driving many thousands of terrified town-dwellers and semi-nomadic peoples into India, where they sought and found refuge. It was a propitious moment both for them and for Iltumish, who needed men skilled in civil and military affairs in order to govern his fledgling kingdom. The influx of a host of refugees in search of a stable state with a successful and generous Muslim ruler boosted the Sultan's claims to being precisely that sort of sovereign. For Iltumish and the youthful Delhi sultanate, then, the Mongol holocaust in Central Asia proved a timely book, unlike the catastrophy it represented for millions in Asia and the Middle East.”
― Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

“I don’t want you to be sad, Temujin. Being able to give back the physical body that sheltered you during your life on earth so that it continues to serve the earth is a great privilege.”
― Antoine Ozanam, Temudjin Obra Completa

“The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign—total victory. Toward this end, it did not matter what tactics were used against the enemy or how the battles were fought or avoided being fought. Winning by clever deception or cruel trickery was still winning and carried no stain on the bravery of the warriors, since there would be plenty of other occasions for showing prowess on the field.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.”
― Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

“Parviz continued, “Do you even know why we refer to it as toman?”

“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.

“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The legend is a fiction, but it illustrates the character of Alexander. Such legends are not related of Genghis Khan, or of Tamerlane by the people whom they conquered.”
― William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man

“Cashewblai Pecan was a mighty conqueror, much as his grandsire Genghis had been.
Under his yasa, all roadways were safe for travelers and honest men.
‘Twas by many a wise tongue said,
That a maiden with a golden vessel on her head,
Might walk alone without fear or dread.
From the great eastern sea all the way to Mesopotamia,
Such was the promise of the Pax Macadamia!”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure