Animal Quote by Ezra Pound

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever…

— Ezra Pound

It was deliciously pagan.

— Gregory Maguire

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

— Henrietta Szold

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

— Tacitus

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the…

— J. I. Packer

“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone; in…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing…

— Erasmus

"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices…

— Larry Hurtado

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian…

— Ouida

In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to…

— Michael Korda

“That really your kind of crowd? These effete psychos who want to relive the seedier aspects of the Roman empire? These are the kind…

— Laird Barron

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at…

— Susan Jacoby