The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you believe in yourself you can conquer all your battles in this world, be brave! — Sfiso MaAphula Ngema Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? — John L. Balderston Copy Share Image
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
