Barbarism Quote by Edward Gibbon

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

— Sam Shoemaker

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

— Bobby Dodd

The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame…

— Orosius

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

— Richard Burton

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

— Augusto Pinochet

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical…

— Augustus William Hare

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.”

— Rodney Stark

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

“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 various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon