Roman Civilization Quotes

• I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

  Peter Jennings

  Years, Empires, Execution

  10 Copy quote

• The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sitting, Leviathan, Empires

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 4, ch. 47

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

  Voltaire

  Empires, Holy, Roman Empire

  8 Copy quote

• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Doubt, World

  "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

  Donald Kagan

  Ignorance, Past, America

  7 Copy quote

• When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Fall, Writing, Rome

  7 Copy quote

• The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

  Dave Barry

  Historical, Literature, Empires

  10 Copy quote

• My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

  Joseph Barbera

  Fall, Empires, Lasts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

  Edward Everett

  Break Up, Atoms, Elements

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.655, Рипол Классик

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fighting, Talking, People

  6 Copy quote

• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Empires, Moral

  6 Copy quote

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  Garrison Keillor

  Air, Luxury, Empires

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 211, 1988.

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

  Robert Strausz-Hupe

  Religious, Real, Technology

  5 Copy quote

• Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Light, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Memories, Latin, Civilization

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 125), 1991.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

  Lytton Strachey

  Civilization, Ruins, Language

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

  Herbert Read

  Civilization, Literature, May

  6 Copy quote

• It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.

  Ben Klassen

  Dark, Blow, Men

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 2), 1973.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Technology, Civilization

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source