[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine…

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates,…

— Virchand Gandhi

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of…

— Garry Kasparov

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not…

— William Henry Chamberlin

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the…

— Edward Gibbon

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event…

— Bernard Lewis

“Across the broken apses and shattered naves of a hundred ruined Byzantine churches, the same smooth, cold, neo-classical faces of the saints and apostles…

— William Dalrymple

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

— Anonymous

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and…

— Norman Davies

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for…

— Henry Adams

Who created the byzantine empire? Who knows about the byzantine empire? Who established the byzantine empire? Who invented the byzantine empire? How many words…

— Brandon McCaw

I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of…

— Van Day Truex

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine…

— Steve Jobs

“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the…

— Judith Herrin

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas…

— Marcel Proust

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting…

— Taylor Swift