Conquest Quote by Alexander the Great Download Open image “The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.” — Alexander the Great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conquest Doing The Same Thing Ends Objects
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“What triumph more complete than that of extorting from a conquered foe the admission that he is conquered?” — Anonymous 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
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory! — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife:… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we… — Alexander the Great 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. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell 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 of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are… — Xavier Durringer 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 that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
