He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the…

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

— Isaac Asimov

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the…

— Isaac Asimov

In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept…

— Gaston Bachelard

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are…

— Xavier Durringer

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent…

— Enoch Powell

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does…

— Maria Montessori

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving…

— Swami Vivekananda

If love is the quest, then marriage is the conquest

— Anonymous

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because…

— Indira Gandhi

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise