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
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of… — W. J. T. Mitchell 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
“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find… — Silvia Federici Copy Share Image
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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
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
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless… — Rob Morrow 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
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
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley 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
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image