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Letter "C" » conquest
«All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Economist,
Logician,
Philosopher)
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subversion,
subversions
«An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.»
Author: Maria Montessori
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Educator,
Physician)
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Keywords:
bonds,
conquest,
diminish,
educational,
intervene,
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social activity,
that is to say,
The Social,
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«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.»
«Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.»
«Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.»
«First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.»
«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»
«Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government»
«Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.»
«A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.»