Modern Kshatriya

for when people here were without a king and fleeing in all directions out of fear, to protect this whole world the Lord created the King by extracting eternal particles from Indra, wind, Yama, Surya, Agni, Varuna, Chandra (Moon), and the Lord of Wealth. The Law Code of Manu

After properly settling the country and building a fort according to textual norms, a king should direct his maximum effort constantly at the eradication of thorns. By protecting those who follow the Arya way of life and by clearing the thorns, kings devoted to the protection of their subjects reach the highest heaven... Bribe-takers, frauds, cheats, gamblers, those who live by abjuring good luck, fortune-tellers, corrupt high-officials... The non-Aryans wearing the marks of an Arya... should be identified as thorns on his people's side. - The Law Code of Manu

We try to conquer many things - even empires - but if we fail to conquer the mind, we are failures even if we manage to conquer an empire. Srila Prabhupada

"Lord Brahmā chastised the demigods for not properly respecting this brāhmaṇa, who was their guru." Śrimad Bhagavatam 6.7.21, Purport.

The truth is that man has gained nothing from the progress of science and technology, neither in regard to knowledge (and I have already spoken of that), nor in regard to his own power, and still less in regard to any higher law of conduct. At best, one could make an exception for medicine, but still only on the physical level. As for power, let no one claim that the ability of the hydrogen bomb to destroy an entire metropolis, or the promise of nuclear energy that heralds the “second industrial revolution,” or the games for grown-up children that are space exploration, have made a single person more potent and superior in himself, in his concrete being. These forms of a mechanical, external, and extrinsic power leave the real human being untouched; he is no more powerful or superior using space missiles than he ever was when using a club, except in its material effects; apart from those he remains as he was, with his passions, his instincts, and his inadequacies.

"Rather than mistaking Truth to be an object that we can greedily grasp in our tiny hands, we must be willing to instead *be grasped* ourselves by Truth. Instead of hoping that Truth will surrender her greatest secrets to us, we must be willing to surrender our very beings at the feet of Truth. Truth is a living thing. It is as much fully alive as are you and I. It is not merely the object to fulfill our desire for dominance. Rather, Truth is itself the subject, and we are its objects - for Truth is non-different from God, who is the supreme subject" - Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Taking Refuge in Dharma