Top 1200 Roman Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

I can't speak of anything but greatness for Roman Reigns. He's one of the all-time greats.

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

I'd love to teach Roman Reigns how to work. Just kidding.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

The Iron Sheik come from Iran where I went to Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling.

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

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

I've known the members of Roman Reigns' family since I was 15 years old.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

I feel that I am better than Roman Reigns, but you know what? He hasn't wrestled as long as I have.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

You will not pass!” Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Really, Tanahashi belongs in the WWE. He can be the next Roman Reigns.

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.