Conquest Quotes · Page 9

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

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

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Patanjali

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

— Jared Diamond

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

— Isaac Asimov

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

— Sri Aurobindo

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

— Anonymous

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

— Gabriel Marcel

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

— John Derbyshire

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the…

— Sydney J. Harris

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring…

— Plato

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its…

— Bertrand Russell

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and…

— Zygmunt Bauman

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was…

— Augustus

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.…

— Mark Twain

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the…

— Herbert Spencer

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

— H. G. Wells

All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like…

— Scott Berkun

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Isabel Allende

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Plautus

“ingenuity is the ultimate gift of humankind.  And conquest is the ultimate curse. ”

— Anonymous

“But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.”

— Rae Carson

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

— Edmund Spenser

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”

— Isaac Asimov

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

— Anonymous

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

— Homer

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

— Jane Porter