Conquest Quotes · Page 8

“ingenuity is the ultimate gift of humankind.  And conquest is the ultimate curse. ”

— Anonymous

“But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.”

— Rae Carson

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

— Christopher Marlowe

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

— Patanjali

There is no reason why a strong back can't get you as far as a strong mind. Work together, grow together, conquer…

— Larry J Cowell

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke…

— Noam Chomsky

The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force…

— Robert Anton Wilson

For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now…

— Arthur Fremantle

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England…

— Goldwin Smith

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested…

— Joseph Brodsky

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates…

— Annie Besant

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our…

— Paul Kingsnorth

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a…

— Brian Aldiss

There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had…

— Xavier Durringer

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added…

— Arthur Lynch

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter…

— Joseph Conrad

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than…

— Carl von Clausewitz

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they…

— John Henrik Clarke

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History…

— Noah Feldman

“You talk far too much...Procure for me at once a chariot or a flying carpet or a well-trained dragon, or whatever is…

— C.S. Lewis

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

— Charles Evans Hughes

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

— Akbar

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

— Wendell Berry

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

— Francis Quarles

The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

— Chinese Proverb

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

— Anonymous

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”

— Isaac Asimov

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

— Jane Porter

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

— Homer

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

— William Shakespeare

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

— Peter York

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

— Alfred Russel Wallace