Quotes of: Conquest Keyword

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

Albert Claude

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is...

The social conquest of Earth

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet

If that was a proposal, you really need to work on your delivery.

Best Man's Conquest

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

Peter York

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.

Goldwin Smith

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

Ignatius of Loyola

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Charles A. Lindbergh

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

William Shakespeare

We hold further that Communism is not only desirable, but that existing societies, founded on Individualism, are inevitably impelled in the direction of Communism. The development of Individualism during the last three centuries is explained by the e...

The Conquest of Bread

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

Gloria Steinem

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Ludwig von Mises

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

Steven Pinker

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

John Boyd Orr

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

The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.

Elliott Abrams

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

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