The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? — John L. Balderston Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When I say I'm weak, God insists that I'm stronger and through Him, I've conquered and will continue to conquer. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot 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
“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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men… — Brom Copy Share Image
I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image