Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

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.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

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

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

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.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

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.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.