#vanquish

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#basic #dual #full #given #health

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. ↗

— Franz Marc

#blue #brutal #cheerful #colour #female

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#evil #himself #man #must #order

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#peril #triumph #vanquish #without

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ↗

— Virgil

#should #strife #vanquished

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#himself #left #means #peace #position

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#dealt #defeated #england #european #fate

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#both #destruction #great #neither #nor

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#book #ceased #day #first #man

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled