It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many… — George Will Copy Share Image
But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire]… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning… — Anthony Mann Copy Share Image
At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only… — John Boswell Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Exhaling in resignation, Vanessa drew her sword, offered a silent prayer for Starke’s safety, and uttered, “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.” ” — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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