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
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Conquest is shown to be an arbitrary act devoid of distinction and significance.” — Andrew Hadfield Copy Share Image
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the… — Hipponax The Satirist Copy Share Image
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron 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
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon 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
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. — James Warburg Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image