conquests Quotes

“With a little more heart, he might have been contented with this new conquest; but the principal features of his character were ambition and pride.”

“He seized his weapon, which the panther and lion fells in the night time cruelly. He captured the wild mountain goats. The panther he conquered.”

“Man’s final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man.”

“Man’s conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consumption, to be Nature’s conquest of Man.”

“And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.”

“For the first time in all history, a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest- not for jealousy- not for war- but for peace!”

“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.”