We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui. — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“You talk far too much...Procure for me at once a chariot or a flying carpet or a well-trained dragon, or whatever is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from… — Karen White Copy Share Image
It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great… — Omar Samra Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
