Roman Civilization Quotes

• Me sorprende enormemente cómo, 300 años después de su ejecución, el cristianismo se convirtió en la religión oficial del Imperio Romano.

  Peter Jennings

  Years, Empires, Execution

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• 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

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

  Voltaire

  Empires, Holy, Roman Empire

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Dave Barry

  Historical, Literature, Empires

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• Mis últimos días en MGM fueron como la caída del Imperio Romano a cámara rápida.

  Joseph Barbera

  Caída, Imperios, Dura

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Estoy seguro de que en la época de los griegos o del Imperio Romano, cuando los hombres luchaban en arenas y peleaban contra leones, la gente hablaba mal. En todas las épocas de la historia hay alguien que habla mal. Es imposible tener talento y no proclamar tu victoria.

  J. B. Smoove

  Lucha, Hablar, Gente

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• El Imperio Romano era muy, muy parecido a nosotros. Perdieron su núcleo moral, su sentido de los valores en términos de lo que eran. Y después de que todas esas cosas convergieron, se fueron a pique muy rápidamente.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Empires, Moral

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• Fueron lujos como el aire acondicionado los que derribaron el Imperio Romano. Con el aire acondicionado las ventanas estaban cerradas, no oían llegar a los bárbaros.

  Garrison Keillor

  Air, Luxury, Empires

  "Citas contemporáneas de Simpson". Libro de James B. Simpson, p. 211, 1988.

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• 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

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• 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). "La democracia en América"

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• La civilización romana había logrado, dentro de los límites de su tecnología, un dominio del tiempo y el espacio relativamente tan grande como el que hemos alcanzado nosotros hoy.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Technology, Civilization

  Discurso de Arthur Erickson ante el Instituto de Banqueros Canadienses, www.arthurerickson.com. 16 de octubre de 1972.

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