Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui. — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus 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
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar… — Kaka Copy Share Image
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a sense, New World conquest was about men seeking a way around one of life's basic rules - that human beings… — Kim MacQuarrie Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
