#conquest

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

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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 A. Baldwin

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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that’s not your business.They should’ve trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#military #war #business

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness. ↗

— David Copperfield

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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Herman Melville

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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

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