“We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.” — Robert Lyndon Copy Share Image
The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. — Akbar Copy Share Image
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a strong back can't get you as far as a strong mind. Work together, grow together, conquer… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. — Homer Copy Share Image
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so… — Moliere Copy Share Image
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved… — Paul Warburg Copy Share Image
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need… — Charles Eisenstein 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
“ 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
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
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
