Quotes of: Conquest Keyword

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

Charles de Secondat

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

The Conquest of Happiness

Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

The Conquest of New Spain

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

Algernon Sidney

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

The Conquest of Happiness

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The Conquest of Happiness

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

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

The Conquest of Happiness

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The Conquest of Happiness

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

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

The social conquest of Earth

Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

In Conquest Born

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Seraphina

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 emo...

Alfred Adler

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

Four Plays by Dryden: The Conquest of Granada parts 1 and 2, Marriage-a-la-Mode, and The Assignation

had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude

Adrian Veidt: His vision of a united world... well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men,...

Watchmen

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

Ninon de L'Enclos

Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature’s conquest of Man. Every victory we seemed to win has led us, step by step, to this conclusion. All Nature’s apparent reverses have been but tactical withdrawal...

The Abolition of Man

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

Thomas Jefferson