Quotes About Being Conquered

#1. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse

#3. He conceived himself and his like as perpetually conquering peoples who were perpetually being conquered.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. The stone will melt in tears,
because I can't remain closed to you forever.
I can't escape without being conquered.
From the blue sky an eye will gaze down,
to summon me in silence.
I will receive death utterly at your feet.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. I want to love you wildly. I don't want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

Anais Nin

#7. I would adore to make up with the United States of America ... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

Sukarno

#8. Many strange things happen in this world

Johanna Spyri

#9. I think it came from being a ruling class, from never being able to show weakness to the people they have conquered - to people like us. It gave them a sense of unyielding authority.

Peter Cunningham

#10. She was disquietingly fluid - fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already by too many men like me ever to be conquered now.

James Baldwin

#11. We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Emma Thompson

#12. People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others ... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism" ... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#13. I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Mary Parker Follett

#14. A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.

Marianne Williamson

#16. 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 preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

Douglas Wilson

#17. There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Conrad Veidt

#18. The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.

F.R. Maher

#19. At night make me one with the darkness
In the morning make me one with the light.

Wendell Berry

#20. The victory of humanity over man.
Humanity had conquered the inhuman.
And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome the giant of anger and hatred? What arms had it used? What engine of war? The cradle.

Victor Hugo

#21. Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#22. Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

Ntozake Shange

#23. When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Hermann Hesse

#24. Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

Fernando Pessoa

#25. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Beth Moore

#26. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

Daniel Klein

#27. You married a borderline psychotic who conquered the brutal circumstances he grew up in by being even more brutal. Add turning into a vampire and centuries of undead power struggles, and you have the crazy cruel bastard you fell in love with.

Jeaniene Frost

#28. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

#29. Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain.
Simply by being himself.

Julia Quinn