Lust Quote by A. H. Septimius

“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things like morality…

— Natalie Kyriacou

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than…

— Martin Luther

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

— Walter Bagehot

“He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins. -- City of God, Book…

— Augustine of Hippo

“To understand what Jesus accomplished and how he paid with his life, we have to understand what was happening around him. His was a…

— Bill O'Reilly

“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing…

— Niall Ferguson

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art…

— Edward Gibbon

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But…

— Kenneth Clark

“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“There was some kind of cultural cause for the decline of the ancient world. It was neither corruption of public spirit nor Christianity. It…

— Norman F. Cantor

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a…

— Victor Hugo