Complacent Quote by Camille Paglia

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as…

— Immortal Technique

“that Rome (if one does not yet know it) has an oppressingly sad effect for the first few days: through the lifeless and doleful…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and…

— Plutarch

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

— Livy

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

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of…

— Letitia Baldrige

“There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost…

— Polybius

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

— Owen Wilson

“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be…

— Peter Frankopan

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

— Edward Gibbon