Birth Quote by Terence McKenna

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have…

— Karl Marx

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture…

— Kit Harington

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

— V. S. Pritchett

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

— Bobby Dodd

What have the Romans ever done for us?

— John Cleese

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

— Anonymous

We are at an inflection point in history.

— Joel Garreau

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove…

— Voltaire

What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like.…

— Isaac Marion