Conqueror Quotes

159 quotes by 131 authors

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It… — Benjamin Disraeli
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye,… — Arthur Koestler
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley
I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same… — Derek Luke
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through… — Wallace Stegner
I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is… — Mike Tyson
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it… — Gloria Steinem
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! — Augustus
He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl… — Max Lucado
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to. — Joe Lieberman
Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror. — Gautama Buddha
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars,… — Joshua L. Liebman
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and… — Roald Dahl
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing… — Friedrich Engels
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold

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