War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If the opponent is weak, victory can make you arrogant; but conquering over a powerful opponent not only shows your ability, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Meditation is the technique of inner conquest - and that is the real challenge. Those who have any guts should accept the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image