The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The idea of love does not conquer all...All is conquered through the acts of love which are patience, understanding, selflessness, sacrifice, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I may be one of the most competitive people you ever know. I want to win every snap, every game, even though… — Brian Urlacher Copy Share Image
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was… — Winston Churchill 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
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
You call it love, I call it the desire to conquer every obstacle that life throws our way while we discover ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now… — Arthur Fremantle Copy Share Image
The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image