Conquest Quotes

334 quotes by 263 authors

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That… — Genghis Khan
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war — Plato
The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self. — Muhammad
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has… — Joseph Campbell
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.… — Paulo Coelho
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman… — Andre Malraux
There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from… — John Eric Erichsen
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He… — H.G. Wells
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. — Ignatius Loyola
The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest — Stewart Udall
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends… — Woodrow Wilson
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free… — Peter Kropotkin
In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the… — Peter Kropotkin
I thank God for all the victories and conquests I've had this year as a player and I bring to the altar two prizes. This… — Unknown Author
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C.S. Lewis
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It… — Peter J. McGuire
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon

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