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Quotes About Unconquered

Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
~ Lucretius
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
~ Germaine Greer
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
~ Seneca the Younger
Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.
~ Lord Acton
Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.
~ Roberto Bolano
Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast. If you'd live unconquered, Quickly arm, and fight the real foe: Every wife an Amazon bred, And every child a hero.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I'm dead but definitely not resting and definitely not in peace.
~ Sister Souljah
Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.
~ Roberto Bolano