Roman Quotes

396 Roman quotes by 302 unique authors

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who… — Julius Evola
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to… — Seneca the Younger
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong. — Scott Hahn
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist… — Ralph Fiennes
There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often… — Pope Francis
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or… — Edward Wilmot Blyden
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all… — Suzanne Farrell
Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is… — Ellen Page
The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in… — Graham Stanton
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind… — Pope Gregory VII
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall… — Romano Prodi
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every… — Thomas Jefferson
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals. — Kurt Vonnegut
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. — John Lothrop Motley
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how… — Joel Salatin
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as… — Jack Kerouac
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable… — Donald Kagan
Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000… — Geoffrey Fieger
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since… — Walter Russell Mead
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson

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