The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell 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
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory,… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for… — John Bright Copy Share Image
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on… — Adam Burch 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
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If the opponent is weak, victory can make you arrogant; but conquering over a powerful opponent not only shows your ability, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. — John Derbyshire 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
... 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
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
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the… — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar… — Kaka Copy Share Image
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world… — Simone Weil 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
