We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.” — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. — James Warburg Copy Share Image
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
'Head wind on a mountain is an inspiring phenomenon, Every time I come home from riding the mountains, my mind is full… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints."… — Angela Knight Copy Share Image
The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever… — John Eric Erichsen Copy Share Image
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. — Walter Martin Copy Share Image