Quotes about Conquest

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Votes: 6

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Votes: 5

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. Votes: 5

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Votes: 5

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. Votes: 5

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. Votes: 5

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. Votes: 5

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. Votes: 5

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. Votes: 5

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 even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints. Votes: 5

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. Votes: 5

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Votes: 5

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 conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. Votes: 5

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. Votes: 4

Conquest is easy. Control is not. Votes: 3

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself. Votes: 3

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me. Votes: 3

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. Votes: 3

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. Votes: 3

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race Votes: 3

Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts. Votes: 3

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Votes: 3

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. Votes: 3

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. Votes: 3

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. Votes: 3

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. Votes: 3

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. Votes: 3

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. Votes: 3

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. Votes: 3

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Votes: 3

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. Votes: 3

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. Votes: 3

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war Votes: 3

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness. Votes: 3

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. Votes: 3

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 and country, a great and wealthy city. Votes: 3

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. Votes: 3

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. Votes: 3

We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments. Votes: 3

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Votes: 3

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. Votes: 3

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. Votes: 2

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. Votes: 2

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. Votes: 2

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. Votes: 2

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Votes: 2

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. Votes: 2

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 camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. Votes: 2

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 stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Votes: 2

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants. Votes: 2

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. Votes: 2

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 that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power. Votes: 2

The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. Votes: 2

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 bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice. Votes: 2

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest Votes: 1

O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance Votes: 1

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance. Votes: 0

Love is a conquest! Love is war! Votes: 0

Self conquest is the greatest of victories. Votes: 0

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms. Votes: 0

The goal of evolution is self - conquest Votes: 0

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. Votes: 0

The reflected world is the conquest of calm Votes: 0

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did. Votes: 0

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. Votes: 0

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp. Votes: 0

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter. Votes: 0

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder. Votes: 0

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Votes: 0

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty. Votes: 0

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. Votes: 0

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. Votes: 0

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest. Votes: 0

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. Votes: 0

The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self. Votes: 0

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. Votes: 0

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. Votes: 0

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. Votes: 0

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. Votes: 0

Survival is the key word to remember"”not victory, not conquest, just survival. Votes: 0

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest Votes: 0

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. Votes: 0

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life. Votes: 0

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.... Votes: 0

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest Votes: 0

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. Votes: 0

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. Votes: 0

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. Votes: 0

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest... Votes: 0

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest. Votes: 0

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. Votes: 0

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. Votes: 0

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. Votes: 0

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. Votes: 0

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing. Votes: 0

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Votes: 0

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. Votes: 0

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. Votes: 0

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps. Votes: 0

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest. Votes: 0

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men. Votes: 0

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery. Votes: 0

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. Votes: 0

in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... Votes: 0

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. Votes: 0

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. Votes: 0

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. Votes: 0

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. Votes: 0

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. Votes: 0

War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. Votes: 0

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. Votes: 0

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. Votes: 0

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight? Votes: 0

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. Votes: 0

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest. Votes: 0

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. Votes: 0

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. Votes: 0

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Votes: 0

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. Votes: 0

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason. Votes: 0

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui. Votes: 0

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths. Votes: 0

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. Votes: 0

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death? Votes: 0

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. Votes: 0

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. Votes: 0

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. Votes: 0

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. Votes: 0

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. Votes: 0

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. Votes: 0

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? Votes: 0

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment. Votes: 0

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. Votes: 0

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. Votes: 0

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Votes: 0

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. Votes: 0

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. Votes: 0

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back Votes: 0

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. Votes: 0

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. Votes: 0

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. Votes: 0

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. Votes: 0

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. Votes: 0

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. Votes: 0

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. Votes: 0

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition. Votes: 0

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great. Votes: 0

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. Votes: 0

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. Votes: 0

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 power. Votes: 0

We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. Votes: 0

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. Votes: 0

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. Votes: 0

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. Votes: 0

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. Votes: 0

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. Votes: 0

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction. Votes: 0

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. Votes: 0

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, and often does. Votes: 0

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a magical world where every aspiration becomes a conquest. Votes: 0

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait... Votes: 0

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. Votes: 0

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 to the Macedonian. Votes: 0

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness. Votes: 0

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness. Votes: 0

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Votes: 0

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. Votes: 0

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 access to the Divine. Votes: 0

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest. Votes: 0

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 or attack from without. Votes: 0

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 the land in geologic times. Votes: 0

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you Votes: 0

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest. Votes: 0

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. Votes: 0

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 resist irrational shifts in the market. Votes: 0

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea. Votes: 0

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued. Votes: 0

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens. Votes: 0

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism. Votes: 0

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, civil strife, or struggles for independence. Votes: 0

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom. Votes: 0

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine. Votes: 0

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 the framework of a complete human history. Votes: 0

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty. Votes: 0

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. Votes: 0

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 singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Votes: 0

What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine. Votes: 0

[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute. Votes: 0

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world. Votes: 0

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest. Votes: 0

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, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity. Votes: 0

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 has risen up and done me the greatest injury. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! Votes: 0

Perhaps the new dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises; and then, unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost heritage. Votes: 0

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 closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. Votes: 0

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 camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war." Votes: 0

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. Votes: 0