Conquest Quotes

334 quotes by 263 authors

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. — Thomas Carlyle
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty. — Michel de Montaigne
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. — Jacques Hadamard
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules.… — Thomas Sankara
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. — Annie Besant
The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn
I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy… — David Brainerd
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can… — Lionel Terray
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He… — Robert Briffault
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T.E. Lawrence
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — James Smith McDonnell
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still… — Hugh Latimer Dryden
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. — Akbar
The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense… — Carl von Clausewitz
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say,… — Maria Montessori
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor… — Paulo Freire
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State… — Albert J. Nock

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