To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own…

— Marilynne Robinson

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of…

— Sophocles

“We can lose money, But the loss of human life is loss forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are…

— Alan D. Wolfelt

You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved…

— Joan Bauer

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

— Laozi

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

— Laozi

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

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