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A victor gives no quarter when the victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life in return for the surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender) of a vanquished opponent.
Under the laws of war "... it is especially forbidden ... to declare that no quarter will be given". This was established under Article 23 of the IV Convention – The Laws and Customs of War on Land of the Hague Conventions of 1907.
Since a judgment on the law relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in October 1946, the 1907 Hague conventions, including the explicit prohibition to declare that no quarter will be given, are considered to be part of the customary laws of war and are binding on all parties in an international armed conflict.
The term originates from an order by the commander of a victorious army that they "will not quarter (house)" captured enemy soldiers. Therefore, none can be taken prisoner and all enemy combatants must be killed. A second derivation given equal prominence in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is that quarter (n.17) can mean "Relations with, or conduct towards, another" as in Shakespeare Oth. II. iii. 180, "Friends all..In Quarter, and in termes like Bride, and Groome." So "no quarter" may also mean to refuse to enter in to an agreement (relations) with an enemy attempting to surrender. The OED mentions a third possible derivation but says "The assertion of De Brieux (1672 Origines..de plusieurs façons de parler, 16) that it arose in an agreement between the Dutch and Spaniards, by which the ransom of an officer or private was to be a quarter of his pay, is at variance with the constant sense of the phrases give and receive quarter."
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Close the door, put out the light
You know they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know
The winds of thor are blowing cold
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you
Ohhhh, choose the path where no one goes
They ask no quarter, ohhhh
Oh, no, no, no quarter
Walking side by side with death
The devil mocks their step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The winds of thor are blowing cold, ohhhh
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where noone goes
They, they ask no quarter
Ohh, ohh, no quarter
Ohhhh, visit me with no quarter
Ohhhh, the pain with no quarter
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Okay, okay
No quarter