Politics Quote by Mary Beard

“The classical heritage as shaped by and filtered through Roman culture had two great flaws. First, it prevented the very rich oral cultures of…

— Norman F. Cantor

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art…

— Edward Gibbon

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for…

— Richard Morris

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the…

— Richard Kirwan

The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.

— Mary Pilon

“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the…

— James P. Carse

“For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation…

— Carl Sagan

“Rome wasn’t deconstructed in a day.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“There was some kind of cultural cause for the decline of the ancient world. It was neither corruption of public spirit nor Christianity. It…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard

“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau