(70 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.”
Alfred Adler
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest”
Helen Rowland
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill
“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Thomas Jefferson
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
“Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government”
“An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.”
Maria Montessori
“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.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
