Conquest Quotes - Page 14

• Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Made

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.131, Fireship Press

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• And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

  Rachel Hartman

  Ignorance, Needs, Treasure

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.164, Random House

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• He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
  [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

  Plautus

  Conqueror

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• Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

  Lord Byron

  Freedom, Blow, Would Be

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

  Ben Kingsley

  Other Cultures, Play, Landscape

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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• When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

  Albert Einstein

  Patience, Children, War

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• Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

  Francis Quarles

  Revenge, Blood, Sweat

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.15

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• Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Fame, Expenditures

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• Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Civilization, India

  Goldwin Smith (1897). “Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social”

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• The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

  Henry Ford

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, East, Asia

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• This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Spiritual, Keys, Names

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• In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

  Jane Porter

  Dream, War, Expectations

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• Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

  Edward Jenks

  Forever, Done, May

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Limits, Bottom

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• There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Men, Artist

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• The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Moon, Land

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

  Arthur Quinn

  Government, Omission, People

  Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.7, Routledge

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• At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Doubt, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.380, Penguin UK

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• The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, War, Exercise

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.161

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• Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crafts, Serious, Conflict

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• A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

  Vladimir Putin

  World, Modern, Policy

  Vladimir Putin’s Interview with Radio Europe 1 and TF1 TV Channel, en.kremlin.ru. June 04, 2014.

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• For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Loss, Men, Careers

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Freedom, Men, Law

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