Conquest Quotes

You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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.

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.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

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

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

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

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

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.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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.

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

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

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

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

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

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

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

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

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

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

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.

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

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.