Conquest Quotes

334 Conquest quotes by 263 unique authors

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will… — William L. Shirer
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the… — Michael Jackson
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition… — Albert Camus
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness… — David Mitchell
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a… — Alan Watts
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! — Lord Byron
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. — William Shakespeare
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free… — Sri Chinmoy
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers… — Noah Feldman
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response,… — Noam Chomsky
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of… — Donald A. Wollheim
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by… — Buddha
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always… — Plato
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within… — James Henry Breasted
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart
We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact… — Philip Morrison
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. — Walter Martin
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution… — John Boyd Orr
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and… — Robert Toombs

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