Top 1200 Roman Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to Greek and Roman ideals, from which our artists cannot get away.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy.

The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

I auditioned for 'The Rainmaker.' Nothing. I auditioned for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Nothing. 'Antigone' was my big break. I got a part as a Roman guard. I carried a spear.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?