Conquest famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
-- Akbar -
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
-- Alexander the Great -
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
-- Algernon Sidney -
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
-- Charlotte Turner Smith -
My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world....
-- Genghis Khan -
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
-- George Eliot -
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
-- Jared Diamond -
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
-- John Derbyshire -
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.
-- Martin E. Marty -
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
-- Max Lucado -
The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.
-- Muhammad -
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
-- Ovid -
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
-- William Shakespeare -
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 -
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
-- Helen Westley -
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
-- Roger Bacon
