Conquest Quotes - page 2

Oswald Cabal: Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First, this little planet and its winds and ways. And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the depths of space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning... (H. G. Wells)
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence” achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered? View quote
Alexander the Great
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. View quote
Amy Chua
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. View quote
James Wolfe
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. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. View quote
Charlotte Turner Smith
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. (Ezra Stiles)
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. View quote
Goldwin Smith
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. View quote
Goldwin Smith
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints. View quote
J. Lee Thompson
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. View quote
Rob Morrow
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. View quote
Tim Wise
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. View quote
Walter Martin
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. View quote
William Gilmore Simms
They fought because they were paid for it; they were not interested very much in the conquest of Greece. The Athenians on the other hand, fought for their freedom. They preferred to die rather than lose their freedom, and those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side. View quote
John Adams
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. (Thomas Jefferson)
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
As much in vain, perhaps, will they search ancient history for examples of the modern Slave-Trade. Too many nations enslaved the prisoners they took in war. But to go to nations with whom there is no war, who have no way provoked, without farther design of conquest, purely to catch inoffensive people, like wild beasts, for slaves, is an hight of outrage against Humanity and Justice, that seems left by Heathen nations to be practised by pretended Christians. How shameful are all attempts to colour and excuse it! View quote
Thomas Paine
Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest. View quote
Thomas Paine