Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender." ... The German people can have dinn...ed into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibi...lity of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The limitless future of childhood shrinks to realistic proportions, to one of limited chances and goals; but, by the same token, t...he mastery of time and space and the conquest of helplessness afford a hitherto unknown promise of self- realization. This is the human condition of adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control.... Compa...red 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinster...s. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter no...ses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »