Conquest Quotes - Page 7

• You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

  Courtney Milan

  World, Necklaces, Proud

  Courtney Milan (2011). “Unclaimed”, p.71, HQN Books

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• In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Blessing, People

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• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Thinking, Tiny

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Ideas, Goal, Touching

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• The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Yield, Achievement

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Add, Rivalry, Charm

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5102, Delphi Classics

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• The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Lust, Gold

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.328

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• He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

  Augustus

  Loss, Winning, Order

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• The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

  Max Fisher

  Horse, War, Technology

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

  David Starr Jordan

  Habit, Pleasure, Vicious

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

  Walter Martin

  Believe, Christ, Capacity

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• True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Boredom, Everyday, Laziness

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• A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Vanity, Race, Desire

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.714, Modern Library

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• Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Mean, Men

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.63, TellerBooks

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• Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Cost, Territory

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.241, Macmillan

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• Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Sides

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• Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Men, Risk, Everest

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• In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest, as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Art, War

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.33, e-artnow

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.

  Gary Jennings

  Christian, Mean, Punishment

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• What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

  Jane Caputi

  Cutting, Practice, Patterns

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• Conquest is easy. Control is not.

  William Shatner

  Easy

  William Shatner (2000). “Dark Victory”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Opinion, Sin, Reparations

  "EXCLUSIVE: '2016 Obama's America' Filmmaker Reacts To President's Slam; Looking For Network To Air Before Election; Says Mainstream Media Refusing Coverage". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. September 11, 2012.

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• That England, that was wont to conquer others,
  Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

  William Shakespeare

  War, England, Conquer

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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