Quotes Tagged With :conquest

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has....

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human....

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated....

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords....

I am. That has not changed. I am the villain. I am the one you should curse, not praise. I am no hero.....

He does not need to be an emperor, but a prince.If he has enough charm or elegance to convince.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes....

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.....

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This....