Conquest Quotes - Page 17

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Principles, Incentives, Months

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• 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Kings, Air, Wings

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 1

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• Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.

  Brom

  Children, Men, Insatiable Need

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• I've never been one of those who is attracted to straight men. Like I always said, 'you're straight, so there's no point' and I have friends who are pursuers of the heterosexual men. They see it as conquests, which I think is a different thing and a more narcissistic thing. And not necessarily a healthy thing.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Men, Healthy

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. April 22, 2014.

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• I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness of [Hernando] Cortez's conquest of Mexico. It's at once very brutal and at times very plodding. It tells what they did everyday, so days can go by and nothing happens. Then all of the sudden they are torturing and doing all these dark things.

  Laila Lalami

  Dark, People, Everyday

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Bumps, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.20, Vintage

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• [Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Religious, Principles

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Triumph cannot help being cruel.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Triumph, Helping

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• Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Religious

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Oct 02, 2016

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• She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

  Milan Kundera

  Sadness, Way, Kind

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• The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Art, Mean, Sleep

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• How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty.

  Michael Jackson

  Land, Leaving, Soldier

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• But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

  Umberto Eco

  Strong, Rome, People

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Suicidal, Long

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.

  Susan Brownmiller

  Country, War, Fighting

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• The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Discovery, Effort

  Sri Aurobindo (2006). “The Upanishads--II : Kena And Other Upanishads”, p.355, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

  Gautama Buddha

  Littles, Goodness, Accomplish

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• All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Time, Yield, Years

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• The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

  Honore de Balzac

  Believe, Men, Europe

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• In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

  Andre Malraux

  Powerful, Organization, Effort

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• 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.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Differences, Alternatives, Dimensions

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.82, Routledge

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• The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Benefits, Social, Contracts

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

  Francis Quarles

  Pain, Self, Immortal Life

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