Book Quote by Edward Gibbon

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion…

— Edward Gibbon

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of…

— Garry Kasparov

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

— Edward Gibbon

“—so much more opportunity now." Her voice trails off. "Hurrah for women's lib, eh?" "The lib?" Impatiently she leans forward and tugs the serape…

— James Tiptree Jr

“But Christendom was not merely a community of warriors or even a community of the nobility. It was a civilization! Unfortunately, for generations everyone…

— Rodney Stark

“Come one, come all! Welcome to the world's greatest entertainment since the fall of Rome. Life, death, victims, voyeurs. The best of society, the…

— Tso

“He won the Civil War for the North, and re-established the Union which today has grown into the vastest consolidated power since the fall…

— J.F.C. Fuller

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

— Rodney Stark

“The fall of Rome in 476 A.D. marks the time when the literate barbarians of Rome were replaced by the illiterate barnarians of Germany,…

— Daniel Levering Lewis