Triumph cannot help being cruel.

It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of…

— Saddam Hussein

No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day.…

— Peter J. McGuire

“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as…

— Joseph O'Neill

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

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

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

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

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

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