Montesquieu believes that monarchies are much more likely than republics to wage wars of conquest, and therefore that a conquering power is likely to be a monarchy.
The March on Rome was not the conquest of power that Mussolini later called it but rather a transfer of power within the framework of the constitution, a transfer made possible by the surrender of public authorities in the face of fascist intimidation.
In the explicit act of violating bodily sovereignty, there is an active search for the conquest of power and control in a space where these have become vulnerable.
In rebel-held Seville, German and Italian fascists are on hand to advise their Spanish counterparts 'on the technique of the conquest of power'.
In this context, we must add also the testimony of Karl Jaspers, according to whom Heidegger drew attention to the "dangerous international association of Jewry" soon after the Nazi conquest of power.
In his conquest of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC; Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China's social thinking, despite Mao's ruthless attempts to suppress it.
The History of Jin contends that Hailing told his officials that the three desires of his life were conquest, absolute power, and women.
The Roman armies, no longer composed of citizens temporarily absent from the plow or the workshop but of lifetime professionals, were now loyal to their generals rather than to the state, and those generals brought on civil war as they competed to turn their foreign conquests into power at home.
Socialism cannot be achieved without the conquest of state power, he argued, and this conquest must be the work of a small group of conspirators.
