Conquest Quotes

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

Peace, Nature, Loser

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

Government, Principles

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.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Nothing, American

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Glory, Armies, Raise

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

Nature, Truth, Art

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.
Plato

War, Fear, Nothing

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

Power, Hard, Away

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

Faith, Great, Art

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.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Powerful, Feeling

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.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Powerful, Feeling

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

Marriage, Sympathy, Either

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.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Soul, Against

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem

Amazing, Either, Courageous

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

Wife, Thou, Thy

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.
E. O. Wilson

Care, Loyalty, Nothing

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.
John Stuart Mill

Political, Moral, Opinions

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

Success, Put, Purpose

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 thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

Different, Pretty, Away

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland

Love, Marriage, Divorce

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

Love, Mind, May

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 J. Nock

Positive, History, State

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.
Moshe Dayan

Purpose, Soldiers, Bring

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von Mises

Evil, Spirit, Weapons

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.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God, Rather, Choice

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot

Hard, Military, Impact

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

Great, Different, America

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

Defeat, Won, Within

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.
John Boyd Orr

Powerful, Revolution, After

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.
David Copperfield

Love, Work, Kindness

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Secondat

War, Victory, Object

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