No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Mankind advances only through struggle.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
The beast is not dead.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.