Conquest Quotes
334 quotes by 273 authors
-
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing…
— James A. Baldwin
-
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority…
— Alfred Adler
-
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
-
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like…
— Amy Chua
-
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
— Norman Cousins
-
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
— Jean Genet
-
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
-
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
— Jacques Monod
-
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
— Helen Keller
-
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global…
— Douglas MacArthur
-
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have…
— Woodrow Wilson
-
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
— Ludwig von Mises
-
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
-
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the…
— George Washington
-
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of…
— John F. Kennedy
-
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting…
— Maria Montessori
-
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
— Maria Montessori
-
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he…
— Maria Montessori
-
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
— Maria Montessori
Who Wrote These Conquest Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 334 Conquest Quotes, led by these top contributors: