Rome Quotes - Page 13

• If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  School, Rights, People

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• And when my own Mark Antony
  Against young Caesar strove,
  And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
  The cause was,--all for love.

  Robert Southey

  Love, Causes, World

  Robert Southey (1829). “All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella”, p.20

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• Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Leadership, Courage, Son

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• If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Different Experiences, Connections, Sweden

  Interview with Munem Wasif, www.chobimela.org. November 24, 2014.

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• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

  Francis Bacon

  Mother, Father, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1850). “The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.113

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• You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Mind, Religion

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• In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Religion, Favors

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• And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

  Sam Harris

  Religion, Ashes, Execution

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

  Horace

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• Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

  Caterina Murino

  Acting, Done, Lessons

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• Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

  Lord Byron

  Country, Cities, Soul

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 78

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• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

  Bobby Dodd

  Christian, Lsu, Colosseum

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• Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

  Shana Alexander

  Moving, Light, August

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?

  Shana Alexander

  Blood, Civilization, Sunrise

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Age, Towers

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Joy, Together

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• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fate, Japan

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

  Voltaire

  Philosophical, Writing, Should Have

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• Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [....] the World Council of Churches [.....] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [.....] the International Monetary Fund [.....] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [.....] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Church, World

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• Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

  Jean Drapeau

  Toronto, Montreal, Milan

  "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.

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• Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Law, America, Long

  Charles Chiniquy (1985). “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church”, p.283, Chick Publications

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• I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

  Hannibal

  Destiny, Fire, Age

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• Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Avenues

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