Self-Conquest

(197 votes)   Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

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(162 votes)   If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(108 votes)   The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(91 votes)   It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

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(81 votes)   I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?

Duke of Alba Ferdinand Alvarez De Toledo

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(74 votes)   In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and ''charitable'' acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

Murray Bookchin
1941-, American Ecologist

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(72 votes)   If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

Arthur Koestler
1905-1983, Hungarian Born British Writer

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