Conquest Quotes

334 quotes by 263 authors

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began… — Boris Pasternak
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. — Jared Diamond
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path… — Thomas Jefferson
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs,… — Matthew Henry
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that… — Ronald Reagan
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel… — Douglas Wilson
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is… — Gaston Bachelard
When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god,… — Gore Vidal
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time… — Goldwin Smith
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week… — Karl Kraus
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your… — James Wolfe
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it… — J. Lee Thompson
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside… — Robert Wright
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia… — Walter Savage Landor
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to… — Hubertus Strughold
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. — Thomas Paine
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute… — Albert Camus

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