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  The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

  Alexander the Great

  Ends, Objects

  Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.

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• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  Walter Ulbricht

  War, Government, Years

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

  Robert Conquest

  History, Subjects, Reactionaries

  "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

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• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Race, Law, Civilization

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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• All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political Revolution, Moral, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Persons, Precarious

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• To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

  Robert Conquest

  Commitment, Thinking, Profound

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• No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

  Algernon Sidney

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.20

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• If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Doe, Compact, Ifs

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Empires, Defeat

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• 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

  Plato

  Peace, War, Tyrants

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• Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Dream, Yesterday

  "Lindbergh". Book by A. Scott Berg, p. 3, 1998.

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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Divorce, Literature

  A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Should Have

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.117

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• The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

  Thomas Paine

  Home, Government, People

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.430

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• The goal of evolution is self - conquest

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Goal, Evolution

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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• Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Maintaining, Conquer

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Nature, Truth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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