Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Filip Dewinter Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It’s spring now, and I was just thinking that I haven’t been in love since the fall. The fall of the Roman… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies… — Herbert W. Armstrong Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Rome was built on seven hills in the wide plain of the Tiber River, about 16 miles from the sea. It was… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“G.K. Chesterton put it well: “It was the best thing the world had yet seen, all things considered and on any large… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster. —IV:22” — Suetonius Copy Share Image
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
“...a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.” — Ruth Downie Copy Share Image
Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.” — Ruth Downie Copy Share Image