Roman Quotes
396 Roman quotes by 302 unique authors
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I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get…
— Michael Moore
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was…
— Camille Paglia
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis…
— Herbert Read
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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
— Herbert Read
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins…
— Herbert Read
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That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up…
— John C. Reilly
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To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods…
— Rick Riordan
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She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
— Joan Rivers
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I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.
— Pat Robertson
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The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
— Robert H. Schuller
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way…
— John Shelby Spong
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
— Voltaire
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The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration,…
— Julian Baggini
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The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma…
— Colm Toibin
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
— Anne Rice
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of…
— Jack Kerouac
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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by…
— Edward Gibbon
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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is…
— Gore Vidal
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in…
— John Green
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that…
— William Butler Yeats
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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
— Voltaire
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I…
— Alan Watts
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Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as '4's'?
— Steven Wright
Who Wrote These Roman Quotes
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