Top 1200 Roman Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

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.

In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

I knew Roman Reigns when he used to come into the locker room with his father, holding his father's hand, barely out of diapers. And I don't say that as an ironic statement... I mean it sincerely.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He's not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we'll call 'populares,' which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

There are several ways to 'do' the Lavender Route. You can hook up with a tour, travelling from the old Roman city of Orange or Montelimar and wind up six or seven days later in Grasse, the renowned perfume capital of the world.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.