Conquest Quotes - Page 4

• The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Political, Politics

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.875, Penguin

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• The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Victory, Occupation

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• It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

  Philip Sidney

  War, Cruelty

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

  James Warburg

  World Government, You Like It, Consent

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• 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.

  David Brainerd

  Enemy, Battle, Missionary

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Sentimental, Looks

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

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• It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fire, Soldier, Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.3

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• Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Feelings, Littles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.87, Vintage

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• Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Men, Dawn

  "Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore:".

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• Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

  Thomas Paine

  Death, Dying, Moments

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Victory, Moments

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• The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Regret, Ignorance, No Regrets

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• First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wife, Firsts, Absolutes

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.30

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• The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Strong, War, Long

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

  Akbar

  Arms, Should, Neighbour

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• Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Order, Independence

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• It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

  Isaac Asimov

  Insecurity, Height, Tests

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, Usa

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• 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

  Father, Catholic, India

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• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Soul, Dominance

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• The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

  Herman Melville

  Mind, May, March

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1009, Delphi Classics

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• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Army

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Government, Principles

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• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

  Albert Camus

  Fighting, History, Prestige

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

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