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
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot 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
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's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I used to play Another One Bites The Dust after every conquest. But I'm old now so I'm changing it to Another… — Rudy Espinoza 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
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin 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
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly 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
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
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm ready for all forms of dialogue about the film The Conquest. There will be a lot of political talk, but I… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I say I'm weak, God insists that I'm stronger and through Him, I've conquered and will continue to conquer. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image