Conquest Quotes - Page 10

• ¿Qué chica podría fallar a una conquista que se desplomara a los pies de un hombre a la luz de la luna?

  John L. Balderston

  Girl, Men, Feet

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

  John Adams

  Country, Independent, Heart

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.813, Library of America

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• We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.

  John Bright

  Country, Mother, Years

  Speech, Birmingham, England, 18 Jan. 1865

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• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

  Christopher Morley

  Falling In Love, Real, Book

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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• Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

  Lord Byron

  Freedom, Blow, Would Be

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

  Ben Kingsley

  Other Cultures, Play, Landscape

  Entrevista con Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. 6 de agosto de 2008.

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• 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.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Civilization, India

  Goldwin Smith (1897). “Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social”

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• La función de la máquina es liberar al hombre de las cargas brutas, y liberar sus energías para la construcción de sus poderes intelectuales y espirituales para conquistas en los campos del pensamiento y la acción superior.

  Henry Ford

  Espiritual, Hombres, Intelectual

  Henry Ford (1926). "Hoy y mañana"

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• Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

  Paulo Freire

  Welfare Programs, Manipulation, Causes

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Endure, Comes And Goes

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• There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

  Adrian Rogers

  Correr, Canción, Media

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pride, Thinking, Discrepancies Between

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• El único fruto que da la vida parece ser a menudo un éxito trivial, la capacidad de hacer algo mejor. Sólo conquistamos cáscaras y caparazones en su mayor parte, al menos aparentemente, pero a veces se trata de canela y especias.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1651, Delphi Classics

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• Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religiosos, Malos, Hombres

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

  Laozi

  Murder, Rejoice

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• There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

  Barón de Montesquieu

  Country, Reality, Government

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• This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.

  Riane Eisler

  Lying, Loss, Men

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• Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Hands, Evil, Temptation

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

  Laozi

  Loss, Joy, Human Life

  Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

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• Sé que algunas personas bien informadas temen que, aunque estemos dispuestos a gastar un par de miles de millones de dólares en 1958, porque aún recordamos la humillación del Sputnik en octubre pasado, el año que viene estaremos tan preocupados por la televisión en color, o los coches de nuevo estilo, o el comienzo de otra elección nacional, que no estaremos dispuestos a pagar la cuota de otro año de nuestra factura de conquista espacial. Para que eso ocurra bien, preferiría que no empezáramos.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Future, Color

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• Descanso suficiente para el hombre individual, demasiado y demasiado pronto, y lo llamamos muerte. Pero para el hombre, no hay descanso ni final. Debe continuar, conquista más allá de la conquista. Primero este pequeño planeta y todos sus vientos y caminos, y luego todas las leyes de la mente y la materia que lo restringen. Luego los planetas a su alrededor y, por último, a través de las inmensidades hasta las estrellas. Y cuando haya conquistado todo el espacio profundo y todos los misterios del tiempo, seguirá siendo el principio.

  H. G. Wells

  Tiempo, Estrellas, Hombres

  "Personaje de ficción: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

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• No puede haber siempre nuevos campos de conquista para el bisturí; debe haber partes de la estructura humana que permanezcan siempre sagradas a sus intrusiones, al menos en manos del cirujano. No cabe duda de que ya hemos alcanzado estos límites finales. El abdomen, el tórax y el cerebro quedarán cerrados para siempre a la intrusión del cirujano sabio y humano.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Sabio, Ciencia, Errores

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