Bolsheviks Quote by Adolf Hitler

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

— Victor Borge

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

— Laura Anne Gilman

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

“Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would…

— Mark Twain

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

— Chris Johnson

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

— Anthony Horowitz

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

— Augusto Pinochet

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

— Ian Paisley

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the…

— Tommy Tenney

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered…

— Tacitus

“Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at…

— Ruth Downie