“All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I used to play Another One Bites The Dust after every conquest. But I'm old now so I'm changing it to Another… — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“The right of conquest is not a right. A society can be founded only with the consent of its members. If it… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth 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
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was,… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn Copy Share Image
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies… — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
![“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/henry-adams-1542_bed_regarding-us-conquest-of-the-philippines_482855.png)
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