Conquest Quotes

334 quotes by 263 authors

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That… — Walter Ulbricht
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest. — Charles Evans Hughes
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by… — Siegfried Sassoon
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest,… — John Keegan
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never… — Thomas Paine
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. — John Derbyshire
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to… — Albert J. Nock
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly,… — B.K.S. Iyengar
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life. — Laozi
To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. — Laozi
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. — Tacitus
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory. — Publilius Syrus
Triumph cannot help being cruel. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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