Quotes About Conquest

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

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.

Man must conquer nature.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

They make a desert and call it peace.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Man does not steal, he conquers

All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

And You win. Period.

The greatest victory is the conquest soul.

You become greater than what you conquer within.