Conquest Quotes

334 quotes by 263 authors

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the… — Unknown Author
My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.... — Genghis Khan
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. — Richard Dawkins
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is… — Orson F. Whitney
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. — Thomas Merton
Survival is the key word to rememberâ€”not victory, not conquest, just survival. — Max Brooks
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. — Eminem
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a… — Arthur Fremantle
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no… — Matthew Henson
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to… — Audre Lorde
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of… — Lord Acton
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy
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 principles,… — Swami Vivekananda
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial… — Thomas Sowell
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus

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