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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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. Plato

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. John Stuart Mill

Political Moral Previous Merely Institutions Opinions Foreign Affected Revolutions Established Subversion Originate Conquest Consequence

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. Dorothea Dix

Love Peace Victory Despondency Pleasure Has-Been Willow Laurel Poetry Been Branch Branches Mourning To Love Conquest Olive Palm Consecrated

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. Herman Melville

Love Mind Wild Through Provinces May Conquest March

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. James Baldwin

Love Soul Surrender Changing Possibility Sexual Totally Only Armed Motion Exist Question Dominance Itself Which Against Conquest Nightmare

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. John Boyd Orr

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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. Nancy Pearcey

Character Islam National Radical Our Bent Willing Welcomed Always National Character America Anyone Radical Islam Conquest Assimilate Assimilation Rejects

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. Tim Wise

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Albert Bushnell Hart

Wise Free Settlers Later Brought Plymouth Netherlands Colonies Had Contact Institutions American Dutch Residence Conquest

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. Algernon Sidney

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During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived. David Roberts

Church Rich Books Hundreds Astronomical Only Mythological Catholic Known Survived Diego Burning Information Spanish Century Conquest Four

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. Ellen Key

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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. Ezra Stiles

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot

Marriage Sympathy Relation Must Either Conquest

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Gloria Steinem

Women Amazing Self-Defense Admirable More Courageous Than Childbirth Either Conquest

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. Homer Hickam

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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints. J. Lee Thompson

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. James Henry Breasted

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