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Quotations on Conquest 30 Quotes Found The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. 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. Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women. 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. The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. 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. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. 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. Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. |
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