Conquest Quotes · Page 7

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

— Isaac Asimov

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

— Jared Diamond

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

— Plautus

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

— Gloria Steinem

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

— William Shakespeare

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

— Isabel Allende

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

— Lord Byron

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

— Patanjali

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to…

— Albert J. Nock

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is your's. It cannot be taken from…

— Buddha

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest…

— Thomas Paine

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies…

— Moshe Dayan

Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites…

— John Adams

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of…

— George Washington

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the…

— Ronald Reagan

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no…

— Chalmers Johnson

You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women.…

— Jim Butcher

The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily…

— Julia Marlowe

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

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

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great…

— Omar Samra

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

— Christopher Marlowe

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

— William Shakespeare

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

— Thomas Fuller

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

— Walter Bagehot

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

— Walter Martin

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

— John L. Balderston

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

— Ovid

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

— C. S. Lewis

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