Top 1200 Roman Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way. There has always been a division of man. There has always been the conqueror and conquered-the master and slave-the ruler and the ruled-the oppressor and the oppressed. There has never been content nor unity. There has been only discontent and disunity.

We need to adopt a new currency. It doesn't matter what or how we call it - lira, sterling, Roman sesterce.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and indeed the fact of appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types of media. A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Imagine you put Brock Lesnar/Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns/John Cena on WrestleMania. Sold.

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento

When I was a kid, every field trip was to some Roman fort because it was cheap and free.

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.

The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

I leave the Iran because bad things happening there when I was greatest Greco-Roman wrestler in the world.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.

The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot.

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.

To me, Roman Reigns was WWE's version of Superman, and he was our locker room leader on 'Raw.'

Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.