Bounds Quote by Arthur Erickson

“A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“When the Greeks were free they created a civilization advanced beyond anything else in the world. When Rome imposed its imperial rule all across…

— Rodney Stark

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended…

— Bud Wilkinson

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

— Dave Barry

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are…

— Arthur Erickson

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble…

— Eleanor Clark

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization.…

— Robert Strausz-Hupe

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of…

— Thomas Huxley

“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed…

— Liu Cixin