As Conan famously said, “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!”
[As Conan famously said, “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!”]
Robert E Howard presumably heard about the original Genghis Khan quote (whether true or apocryphal):
[This conqueror once asked to noyan Bourgoudji, one of his first generals, what was, in his opinion, the delight of man. “It is, he said, to go to the hunt, a spring day, mounted on a beautiful horse, holding his fist on a hawk or a falcon, and see it cut down its prey.” The prince made the same question to General Bourgoul, and then to other officers, who all answered as Bourgoudji. “No,” said Chingiz Khan, “the greatest enjoyment of a man is to overcome his enemies, drive them before him, snatch what they have, to see the people to whom they are dear with their faces bathed in tears, to ride their horses, to squeeze in his arms their daughters and women.”]