Top Conquest Quotes

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Conquest Definition

(n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.

(n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.

(n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

(n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conq...

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been ignored or forgiven; suggestions have been made about turnin...

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into...

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

His lips nuzzled her ear. Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die, he whispered.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates...

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their l...

I am not speaking strictly of slavery here, but of that process that dislodges people from the webs of mutual commitment, shared history, and collective responsibility that make them what they are, so...

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

How grand is victory but how dear!

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...