A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the…

“Ironically, as Illinois Sen. Richard Yates pointed out, opponents of expansionism employed arguments extremely reminiscent of proslavery ideology, while its supporters upheld the principle…

— Eric Foner

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have…

— Jared Diamond

I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors…

— Vladimir Putin

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

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