Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial… — Alice Corbin Henderson Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Give a man love and he will trade his crown for a kiss. Break a man's heart and he will raise empires… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image