Conquest Quotes

Conquest Quote of the day

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

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

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

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.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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