We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“First thing Monday morning, Ruby came in. She seemed upset. "Zach, I've had a vision," she said immediately. "Was it a dream,"… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe Copy Share Image
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Though they love people, the Christians are enemies of our life, our gods and our crimes; hence she fled from me, as… — Henryk Stanczyk Copy Share Image
The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's- More, like a person than a bird?… — Moira Young Copy Share Image
