Barbarians Quote by Edward Gibbon

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the…

— Henri Pirenne

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

— Thomas Carlyle

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after battle but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the…

— Edward Gibbon

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame…

— Thomas S. Monson

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

— Edward Gibbon

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

— John Milton

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she…

— Will Durant

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

— Albert Sidney Johnston