Republics Quote by Laird Barron

“You do remember the lessons, however. Rome—corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn’t rule itself. Its senators fighting for…

— Ilona Andrews

“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in…

— William Gaddis

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey…

— Livy

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…

— Samuel Johnson

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento

— Virgil

“The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In”

— Noam Chomsky

“They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.”

— Walter Mosley

“Gio Parisi was a good-looking man,if your taste ran to dissolute Roman emperors.”

— Rosie Genova

“fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.”

— Bobby Adair