Built Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

— Martin Luther

“[Rome], who was formerly the gate of heaven, is now a sort of open mouth of hell.”

— Martin Luther

“the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all…

— Martin Luther

“The Church of Rome ... has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin,…

— Martin Luther

“Popes come and go, empires clash, new worlds arise, but Rome is eternally Rome, which is to say that its people were busy as…

— Sara Poole

“Who but the devil lives like a king in the middle of hell”

— James Patterson

After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.

— Martin Luther

“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.”

— John Fowles

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of…

— William Hazlitt

“You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today,…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.”

— Martin Luther

“To the right off of west bound Jefferson Avenue there were still neighborhoods that served as the gateway to hell. Where black children cowered…

— Stephen Mack Jones