“How can we fight a whole people that just keeps on melting away before us but is always in the background awaiting… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“This is the first lesson, Rhea. Men think they create the empires, but both are born of women. You will be a… — Lauren J.A. Bear Copy Share Image
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
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon 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
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not… — Daniel 2:43 Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed 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 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
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because… — Karl Marx 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
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
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
“There were a great many other such tableaux. As Martial had predicted, bears featured prominently in most of them. A temple thief… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“Villicus Vadum: Soldier Of Fortune by Stewart Stafford I am the ghost of lupine Romulus, Founder of Rome, hear my tale, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“If, instead of Wainwright's question, we ask 'What were the Picts?', the answer is very simple. They were a nation created by… — W.A. Cummins Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley 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
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
“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.” — Dannika Dark 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
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon 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
