Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
For my father, being kind was natural… I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest – not words you usually associate with kindness.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
Here’s the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
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.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
I may be one of the most competitive people you ever know. I want to win every snap, every game, even though it was not possible… it really wasn’t about the conquest, it was about the challenge.
It’s hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Here’s the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
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.
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.
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States’ goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come.
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.
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.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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.
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