Top 100 Quotes About Conquest
#1. Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Thomas Carlyle
#3. European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#4. 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.
Rob Morrow
#5. Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.
Maria Montessori
#6. 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.
Max Ernst
#7. 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.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#8. Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.
Nenia Campbell
#9. 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.
Paulo Freire
#10. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
#11. When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams
#12. I don't see you as a conquest," he added. "But I'd be lying if I said I didn't find your feistiness a turn-on.
Priscilla West
#13. Our Constitution ... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.
Frederick Lenz
#15. For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South ...
Arthur Fremantle
#16. 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.
David Brainerd
#17. It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism - the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.
Peter Kropotkin
#18. To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.
Laozi
#19. Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it."
-Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest)
Greg Keyes
#20. To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
Laozi
#21. The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
Norman Cousins
#22. 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.
Courtney Milan
#23. 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.
Alice Corbin Henderson
#24. Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#25. Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
Baron De Montesquieu
#26. Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.
Yuval Noah Harari
#28. 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.
Charles Nicolle
#29. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#30. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig Von Mises
#31. The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles De Secondat
#32. 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.
Dorothea Dix
#33. The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Northrop Frye
#34. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Gus Grissom
#35. In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
Lord Acton
#36. I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.
Paul Kingsnorth
#37. Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr
#38. The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,
the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,
at least apparently,
but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.
Silvio Berlusconi
#40. They dug up so much silver to pay for their wars of conquest that the metal itself dramatically declined in value - that is to say, in its purchasing power with respect to other goods.
Niall Ferguson
#41. The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
Alfred Adler
#42. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure
fearlessness and achievement.
Joseph Campbell
#43. A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.
Paul Kingsnorth
#44. Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.
Douglas Rushkoff
#45. To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Laozi
#46. Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things.
Will Durant
#47. 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.
Thomas Merton
#48. Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.
Euripides
#49. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
Henry Van Dyke
#50. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.
George Orwell
#51. And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#52. [regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [ ... ] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.
Henry Adams
#53. It blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty
Joseph Conrad
#55. And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.
Richard Bode
#56. Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#57. And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
Homer
#58. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
Ingrid Betancourt
#60. Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.
Witold Gombrowicz
#61. The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
Muhammad
#62. In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...
Jane Porter
#63. 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 of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.
Philip Morrison
#65. The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.
Joseph Conrad
#66. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire
#67. Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples who through their rituals were identified with the gods.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#68. My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world ...
Genghis Khan
#69. A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Mahmoud Darwish
#71. In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
Lawrence Durrell
#72. 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.
Thomas Browne
#73. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Oliver Stone
#74. 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.
James Wolfe
#75. 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.
Albert Jay Nock
#76. A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
Vladimir Putin
#77. From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia
Paulo Freire
#79. 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
#80. 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.
Amy Chua
#81. But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was what attracted them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
Charles Caleb Colton
#83. 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.
Edward Gibbon
#84. If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?
Aron Nimzowitsch
#85. 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 has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
Karl Kraus
#86. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
#87. Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
William Shakespeare
#88. Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Ludwig Von Mises
#90. 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.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#91. 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.
Sri Chinmoy
#92. SUMMIT PLUMMET
Celeb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#93. Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Mason Cooley
#94. Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Steven Pinker
#95. The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.
Ludwig Von Mises
#96. 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.
Daniel Defoe
#97. What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand Russell
#98. We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.
Swami Vivekananda
#100. 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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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