History Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“Julius Caesar's victories in Gaul were in significant part a result of the disunity of the Celts there, and of his ability to divide…

— Thomas Sowell

“In 63 BCE the city of Rome was a vast metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, larger than any other in Europe before…

— Mary Beard

“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends…

— Bill Bryson

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

— Thomas Campbell

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran

“Rome was not the first state of organized gangsterdom, nor was it the last; but it was the only one that managed to bamboozle…

— Petr Beckmann

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except…

— William J Federer

“Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at…

— Ruth Downie

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

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

“In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were…

— George Hodges

“ The Making of an Empire Not all people were regarded as citizens and given the right to vote in the Roman Republic. Many…

— Jean F. Blashfield