Conquest Quotes · Page 9

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

— William Shakespeare

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Our missions are peaceful...not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice.

— James T Kirk

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

— Peter York

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

— Bruce Lee

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

— Thomas Carlyle

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

— Thomas Paine

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

— Northrop Frye

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or…

— Virginia Woolf

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

— Joseph Campbell

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with…

— Ralph Ellison

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That…

— Maria Montessori

“It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory,…

— Curzio Malaparte

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for…

— John Bright

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added…

— Arthur Lynch

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a…

— Brian Aldiss

There's a double meaning in the film The Conquest. First, the conquest of power at the UMP party and how Sarkozy had…

— Xavier Durringer

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter…

— Joseph Conrad

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of…

— Susan Brownmiller

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern…

— Bertrand Russell

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

— Charles de Secondat

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

— Bill Vaughan

“We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.”

— Robert Lyndon

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

To get the best, we have to conquer the unwanted tests life brings and prove we deserve it.

— Terry Mark

“Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.”

— Bryant McGill

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

— Herman Melville

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

— Algernon Sidney

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

— William Barrett

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

— Vladimir Putin

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

— Paulo Coelho

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

— Max Brooks

“Smile is an act of conquest! The person you smile at is immediately conquered, as if by an army of a thousand…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

— U-God