Conquest Quotes · Page 8

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

— William Shakespeare

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

— Walter Martin

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

— Silvio Berlusconi

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

— Lord Byron

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

— Samuel Johnson

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

— Alfred Adler

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

— Seneca the Elder

[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner…

— Elie Wiesel

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of…

— Charles Nicolle

Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His…

— Matthew Henry

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence…

— John Keegan

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal…

— Albert Camus

Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told…

— Adam Ferrara

I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual…

— Nate Parker

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which…

— Jane Caputi

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and…

— Amy Chua

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

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power…

— Andre Malraux

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in…

— Saddam Hussein

The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily…

— Julia Marlowe

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.”

— Andrew Hadfield

“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

— Maria Montessori

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

— Victor Hugo

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

— Herbert Spencer

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

— Helen Westley

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

— Roger Bacon

“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.”

— Bryant McGill

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

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

— James Warburg

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte