Carthage Quote by Cato the Elder

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

— Cato the Elder

“I. Carthage. 900–200 B.C. In the third century B.C., Rome and Carthage divided the power of the Mediterranean world. Rome was first on land,…

— Theodore Ayrault Dodge

“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

— John Adams

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

“But as he stood watching Carthage burn, Scipio reflected on the fate of this once great power. Overcome with emotion, he cried. His friend…

— Mike Duncan

“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

— Karl Marx

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

— Voltaire

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

— Hildegard of Bingen

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past…

— Nostradamus

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

— Northrop Frye

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

— Pope Alexander VI